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Following a day of upsets that saw two American women's top-10 seeds go down, No. 6 Madison Keys moved into the third round at Wimbledon with a comfortable 6-4, 6-2 victory over Olga Danilovic on Wednesday. "I knew that I wanted to get the momentum as early as I could and try to keep it," Keys said in an on-court interview. "I knew that she could play really great tennis, so just wanted to get a lead and then run with it." In the opening round and amid scorching temperatures, Keys had to battle past Elena-Gabriela Ruse 6-7 (4), 7-5, 7-5, her fifth major win this season that went past 5-all in the third set, an Open era record for a single year. She had an easier time of it Wednesday. While the numbers were fairly even -- Keys fired off 19 winners to Danilovic's 15, while Danilovic made marginally more unforced errors -- Keys' consistency meant she never looked like she was in danger of an upset. She wrapped up the second-round match in 75 minutes. "I definitely felt a little bit more comfortable today -- it's the cloudy, rainy England that we know and love, so that helped a lot ... felt a little bit more normal out here today," Keys said with a laugh. With the women's side losing No. 2 Coco Gauff and No. 3 Jessica Pegula on Tuesday, it's the first women's major in the Open era in which two of the top three seeds lost their opening matches. Keys' 52-18 (.742 win percentage) tour-level record on grass is the third highest among active women (minimum 15 matches), after Venus Williams (98-26, .790 win pct) and Petra Kvitova (74-25, .747 win percentage). She is looking to become the first woman since Serena Williams to win the Australian Open and Wimbledon in the same season. Next up for Keys is Germany's Laura Siegemund, who has already earned her best result at Wimbledon by reaching the third round. ESPN Research and Reuters contributed to this report.
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