WTA 500
Adult ticket prices including fees for Madison Keys events start from as low as USD $9 for basic tickets to USD $2,945 for the most premium tickets; with the average starting ticket price at USD $20. The price depends on a range of factors including the opposing players, the venue, the stage of the league, the seats’ proximity to the action, and additional benefits such as hospitality.
Madison Keys is a professional tennis player, born in Illinois in 1995.
Having started playing tennis as a young girl after seeing Venus Williams on television, she and her family relocated to Florida to enable to dedicate more time to the sport. As a junior, Keys won the junior draw of the prestigious Orange Bowl tournament, and soon embarked on a professional career.
Keys' WTA tour debut came aged just 14, in a win against a then-top-100 player, making the American one of the youngest WTA match winners in history. Keys also recorded a win over Serena Williams in the World TeamTennis franchise, again aged only 14. Within 2 years, Keys had debuted at the US Open at 16, cementing her place as one of the rising stars of women's tennis.
By 2013, Keys was appearing more consistently at WTA-level events, and jumped 100 places to finish the year inside the WTA top-50. In 2014 she won her first WTA title, defeating Angelique Kerber in the final of the Eastbourne International. Keys' stock continued to rise, and in 2015 she reached the semifinals of the US Open, defeating her idol Venus Williams, but losing to her sister, Serena. The following year Keys broke into the top-10 for the first time, and as a result qualified for the WTA Finals. Having established herself as a Grand Slam contender, and a player capable of beating the best in the world, Keys recorded strong runs at the 2017 US Open, where she lost in the final to Sloane Stephens, and at Roland-Garros in 2018, where she reached the semifinals. Keys also reached the US Open semifinals in 2018; her loss to Naomi Osaka meant she had lost to the eventual winner in 2 consecutive editions of the tournament.
The 2019 season saw Keys collect her first WTA 1000 title, though she then struggled for form throughout the rest of the year, and the following 2020 season. In 2021 Keys fell out of the WTA top-50, but by 2022 she had returned to the upper echelons of the singles rankings after reaching the semifinals of the Australian Open.
Madison Keys is well-known for her powerful serve, a skill she has had she was a young player, and which is now one of the fastest on the WTA tour. Her groundstrokes are similarly strong on both the forehand and backhand side, though it is her forehand which her opponents usually fear most, with Keys able to generate excellent pace on the ball from far back in the court. Indeed, Keys rarely approaches the net, and prefers to dictate from the baseline.
It was a good experience and the crowd management was pretty good, except for foreigners who attended with passport verification. It was not so convenient to reenter the Diamond Court without being escorted by the friend who booked the tickets on our behalf. The ushers at the gate kept on insisting to check the original booking on the mini app, and passport verification was not sufficient.
It was an amazing experience being the first time in China. The event was well organized, and the courts were clean. Watching the top players live was out of this world.
It was an experience of a lifetime, unforgettable. The only thing we would have loved is the use of Visa instead of drawing cash as some of us travelled far, we came from South Africa. We will definitely attend again
Very well organised n helpful staff
As usual the organisation and players were great. Unfortunately I have the same ‘complaint’ as I have voiced by emails previously. I accompany a person with disability and the first time we were seated in the North stand area for disability seating the chairs provided were good. Last year and this year they are not suitable. To hard and not easy for anyone to push themselves up from. I did observe that the good chairs are still being used in the lower east court side section. So therefor I see no reason why these cannot also be provided or at least given as an option to persons with disabilities! Frankly even I have suffered from a sore back today even though we brought cushions to help and I do not have a disability. It would also be polite to have at least an acknowlefgement of this correspondence.
We enjoyed the final day , but was dissapointed with quarter final day with players pulling out of games due to injury and we didnt get value for our tickets.Overall the tournament was well run , but some foods were too costly . Example magnum ice cream for $8.20 and Pirate Beer can $15
