This 17-point roundup is about the men and women who put it all on or inside the lines at the rowdiest major event of the season. The hits started early, and they certainly kept coming.
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Madison Keys. Kevin Anderson. If, in your brackets, you had these two soaring to their respective finals in New York City this month, you certainly would have made some bank yourself.
Keys outdid CoCo Vandeweghe, Elina Svitolina, Elena Vesnina and three more human tests to pave her own way to a first major championship round. Blast-from-the-past photos of her circulated early and often—she even had a Twitter exchange about it with coach Lindsay Davenport—but Keys was far more focused on her future.