By the numbers: Keys reaches first Roland Garros quarterfinal in six years
Madison Keys moved through to the quarterfinals at Roland Garros for the first time since 2019 with a 6-3, 7-5 win over fellow American Hailey Baptiste on Monday. Her upcoming quarterfinal against No. 2 seed Coco Gauff will be her third appearance in the last eight in Paris, and she would match her all-time best result at the French Open win a victory in that match.
Australian Open champion Keys has now won 11 straight Grand Slam matches, and is also hoping to be the sixth woman to win in Melbourne and Paris in the same year after Margaret Court, Stefanie Graf, Monica Seles, Jennifer Capriati and Serena Williams.
Against Baptiste, she came through a routine first set but had to battle in the second; she came from 3-1 down early on, and was two points from losing the set when her younger compatriot -- in the midst of her deepest-ever run at a major -- pushed the 10th game to deuce.
"I'm really happy with my play today," keys confessed afterwards. "Hailey, I think, is a fantastic tennis player. I knew kind of going into the match that I was going to have to kind of up my level and any opportunity that I could just try to capitalize on it."
Read on for more facts and figures from Keys' latest major victory.
2: Keys has now beaten Americans in back-to-back matches in Paris. She ousted 2020 Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin in the third round before beating Baptiste.
3: Keys has now won three straight matches against Baptiste after losing their first head-to-head match in Washington, D.C. six years ago -- when the latter was 17 years old. At the time, that was Baptiste's first career win over a Top 20 opponent.
5: In a dominant first set, Keys lost just five points on serve. She never faced a break point in her first five service games.
9: Keys is now 9-1 against players ranked outside the Top 50 in 2025; her only loss came against Alexandra Eala at the Miami Open.
10: Keys hit 10 more winners than Baptiste in victory: 26 to 16. But the vast majority of those -- 20, in fact -- came in the second set.
For a return trip to the semifinals, the round she reached in her deepest-ever Roland Garros run in 2018, Keys will hope to continue a recent trend against Gauff. She'll take a 3-2 winning head-to-head record into their quarterfinal, including a three-set win on clay in Madrid last spring.
"I think Coco is obviously pretty dominant on clay," Keys said. "I would say it's probably her best surface to play on. It's obviously a big challenge.
"I think for me it's going to be a lot about trying to balance going after things, but knowing with her ability to cover the court, you're going to have to win the point multiple times before it's actually over.
"So I think that's always one of the trickier things when you're playing someone who moves as well as she does. Then you also have the threat against her of if at any point you kind of lose control of the point, she's going to be the aggressor. So I think the biggest thing is the balance of going for things, but with enough margin that it's a repeatable ball, shot after shot."
