Madison Keys kisses the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup after defeating Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus in the women’s singles final at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, on Jan. 25.Ng Han Guan/The Associated Press
If you are a regular follower of tennis, you’ll be familiar with Madison Keys. She’s the nice American lady who loses in the third round.
Keys has been playing for so long that everyone’s forgotten she used to be the next big thing. When that didn’t turn out, she became a feature of tennis – the sort of player you had to beat a few times to prove you were ready for a real test.
We used to call this sort of person a journeyman, back when such a thing was more…