Riske dealt late-night loss by No. 8 seed at U.S. Open
NEW YORK (AP) – Eighth-seeded Madison Keys rallied from down a set and a break to outlast fellow American Alison Riske in a first-round U.S. Open match that ended at 1:48 a.m. Tuesday morning. It was the latest-ending women’s match in tournament history.
Keys, who took a medical timeout in the second set to have a trainer manipulate her right shoulder, won 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-2 in 2 hours, 26 minutes.
The 60th-ranked Riske, a McMurray native, had two points on her serve at 5-4 in the second-set tiebreaker to try to close out the match, but Keys won them both and clinched the set on the next point.
Riske has lost 10 straight Grand Slam matches. She’s 2-16 against top-10 opponents, though one of the victories came against Petra Kvitova as Riske reached the round of 16 at the 2013 U.S. Open.
Keys hasn’t lost in the first round at a major since the 2014 French Open. The 21-year-old is coming off a run to the Olympic semifinals, but she pulled out of the hard-court tuneup at New Haven because of a neck injury.