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Unseeded Maria Edges Keys to Reach Queen’s Club Final

Crafty low slices combined with a perfectly weighted lob propelled the 37-year-old qualifier past the Australian Open champion

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Tennis - Queen's Club Championships - Queen's Club, London, Britain - June 14, 2025 Germany's Tatjana Maria in action during her semi final match against Madison Keys of the U.S. Action Images via Reuters/Andrew Couldridge
Tennis - Queen's Club Championships - Queen's Club, London, Britain - June 14, 2025 Germany's Tatjana Maria celebrates after winning her semi final match against Madison Keys of the U.S. Action Images via Reuters/Andrew Couldridge
Tennis - Queen's Club Championships - Queen's Club, London, Britain - June 14, 2025 Germany's Tatjana Maria celebrates after winning her semi final match against Madison Keys of the U.S. Action Images via Reuters/Andrew Couldridge

Overview

  • Maria ended a nine-match losing streak and reached her first Queen’s Club final with a 6-3, 7-6(7/3) victory over Madison Keys on June 14.
  • The German qualifier committed only six unforced errors compared with Keys’s 37, using low slices to dictate play on the grass courts.
  • Keys produced 41 winners but was undone by errors and surrendered match point when Maria lofted a perfectly weighted lob into an empty court.
  • Maria, a 37-year-old mother of two who entered the tournament as a qualifier, previously ousted former Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina in the quarter-finals.
  • Maria will face either top seed Zheng Qinwen or Amanda Anisimova in Sunday’s final and Keys’s defeat may disrupt her Wimbledon preparations beginning June 30.