Tennis-Keys wins Eastbourne Open as men's final postponed due to rain


Tennis - Eastbourne Open - Devonshire Park Lawn Tennis Club, Eastbourne, Britain - June 27, 2026 Spectators hold umbrellas in the stands during a rain delay in the final match between France's Ugo Humbert and Belgium's Zizou Bergs REUTERS/Isabel Infantes

June 27 (Reuters) - Two-time ⁠Wimbledon quarter-finalist Madison Keys clinched her third ⁠Eastbourne Open title on Saturday with a ‌7-5 6-4 win over Tatjana Maria, before the men's final between Zizou Bergs and Ugo Humbert was postponed to Sunday ​due to rain.

Germany's Maria, who ⁠won the Queen's ⁠Club Championship last year, saved three set points to ⁠make ‌it 5-5 in the first set, but former Australian Open champion Keys won ⁠the next two games to take the ​first set.

A ‌break in the seventh game tilted the ⁠second set ​in the American's favour as well, as she claimed another victory in the tournament where she won ⁠her first WTA title in ​2014.

"To be able to win it for the third time means the absolute world to me," said ⁠the 31-year-old, who will face fellow American Kayla Day in the first round at Wimbledon.

Bergs and Humbert are set to face off again in ​Wimbledon's first round, but their ⁠clash in the men's final in Eastbourne was ​interrupted by rain, with Humbert ‌leading the first set 2-1, ​and will continue on Sunday.

(Reporting by Chiranjit Ojha in Bengaluru; editing by Clare Fallon)

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