Keys honored with Player Who Makes a Difference award

Apr 09, 2019
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Keys honored with Player Who Makes a Difference award

Published Apr 09, 2019

Just a few days before she won the Charleston title, Madison Keys was honored with the Player Who Makes a Difference Award for her work with Fearlessly Girl.

The award came with a $10,000 donation to Keys' anti-bullying cause of helping young women and girls learn to be nicer to each other.

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"Fearlessly Girl is this amazing program that my partner Kate [Whitfield] started when she was in high school and she was going through bullying herself," Keys said. "It is about us going into predominately high schools and middle schools and talking to these girls. The biggest thing is we go in and we just give them the platform to be able to talk to each other."

Keys was in especially good spirits during her special awards night since she had just beaten Sloane Stephens in the quarterfinals, marking her first career win over the world No. 8.

She would go on to beat Monica Puig in the semifinals and Caroline Wozniacki in the final.

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It's her first career clay title and fourth WTA trophy overall.

Keys' ranking rose four spots up to No. 14.