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Keys ousts Venus in third round at Montreal
- Updated: July 29, 2016
9:19 PM ET
MONTREAL — Sixth-seeded Venus Williams tumbled out of the Rogers Cup in the third round Thursday night, falling 6-1, 6-7 (2), 6-3 to 10th-seeded Madison Keys in an all-American match.
Playing her last tournament match before the Rio Olympics, the 36-year-old Williams lost seven straight games before holding serve in the third game of the second set. After Williams rallied to tie the match, Keys found her serve in the third set, punctuating the win with an ace on match point.
The 21-year-old Keys won the Wimbledon tuneup event in Birmingham, England, this year for her second WTA Tour title. She’ll face 16th-seeded Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia in the quarterfinals.
Williams beat Barbora Strycova — the Czech player Keys topped in the Birmingham final — on Wednesday in her first match since losing to Britain’s Johanna …
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