Madison Keys makes her first major quarterfinal, ousting compatriot Madison Brengle in straight sets. Australian Open 2015

American Madison Keys makes her first major quarterfinal, ousting compatriot Madison Brengle in straight sets on Monday. 

Move over Nick Kyrgios, there’s another teenager in the Australian Open 2015 quarterfinals. Madison Keys emerged victorious in Monday’s battle of the Madisons, blasting her way past compatriot Madison Brengle 6-2 6-4 at Margaret Court Arena. 
 Perhaps battle isn’t the word. At times the all-American fourth-round showdown was less a title bout at Madison Square Garden than a stroll down Madison Avenue for Keys. 
The 19-year-old twinned her potent firepower with a newfound consistency that she will hopes to carry into her first major quarterfinal against Venus Williams, her opponent in the last eight. “It will be a tough match,” Keys admitted, and a rather different match to her showdown with Brengle. “Venus is a big hitter, has a great serve, and can be very much on the offense.” Brengle hustled and harried Keys as best she could in the second set, but the world No.35 dealt with her nerves to serve out the victory in exactly an hour. Keys – the younger, higher-ranked of the two – was simply too powerful when it mattered for Brengle, also playing her first fourth-round match at a Grand Slam having made her debut at the Australian Open in 2007.
 It has been a month-long tale of grit and guile in Australia for Brengle, the 10th of 13 Americans currently ranked in the WTA top 100 coming into the Australian Open. A qualifier-come-finalist in Hobart in the build-up to Melbourne, her 2015 season is already 17 matches old, a run that will elevate her into the top 50 next week. And to think it might not have happened had she not been given the all-clear after surgery to remove a cancerous lesion by her knee late last year.