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When does Madison Keys play next in the French Open 2024? Opponent, time, and date
Seeded No. 14 at Roland Garros, Keys opened with a straight-sets win to make it to the second round, where she faces Egyptian opposition.
The United States’ Madison Keys will meet Egyptian Mayar Sherif in the second round of the 2024 French Open women’s singles tournament, after the No. 14 seed saw off Mexico’s Renata Zarazúa in her opening match at Roland Garros.
Keys’s first-round match-up against Zarazúa was notable for there being 10 breaks of serve in two sets, seven of which went the American’s way. After her 6-3, 6-2 victory over the Mexican, the world No. 102, the Illinois native now comes up against a player who breezed through the first round in straight sets, defeating China’s Yue Yuan 6-1, 6-3.
What are Keys and Sherif’s best French Open performances?
2017 US Open runner-up Keys put in her best performance in Paris the following year, reaching the semi-finals. After defeating fellow seeds Naomi Osaka and Mihaela Buzărnescu, she lost to compatriot Sloane Stephens in two sets in the last four.
Meanwhile, Sherif, who has one WTA Tour title to her name (the Emilia Romagna Open in 2022) has already equalled her best achievement at Roland-Garros, and indeed in any Grand Slam. The Egyptian world No. 53 will be looking to reach the third round of a major for the first time in her career having made it to this stage of the French Open in 2022 and 2023, as well as the Australian Open in 2021.
Keys vs Sherif: start time, how to watch
Keys and Shefif’s French Open second-round match is to take place on Thursday 30 May. The tournament organisers have yet to reveal the order of play, or on which court the match will take place.
Viewers in the US will be able to watch live coverage of Thursday’s second-round action on the Tennis Channel.
You can also stream the action on fuboTV, which offers users a free trial
Keys vs Sherif: head to head
Thursday’s meeting will be the first between Keys and Sherif.
The American goes into the second round having won 12 of her last 14 matches. She lost to world No. 1 Iga Swiatek in the Madrid and Italian Opens earlier in May but won in Strasbourg in the lead-up to Roland-Garros.
Sherif, meanwhile, has lost in the final of her last two events, the Grand Prix De Son Altesse Royale La Princesse Lalla Meryem, a WTA 250 event, and the Parma Open, a WTA 125 tournament.