Angelique Kerber
It is a former German 1 WTA player, currently WTA 16th place, with great ambitions for 2018.
Angelique started the year at the Hopman Cup where he managed to win all the games with Mertens, Bouchard, Gavrilova and Bencic without losing the set and continued his track at Sydney where he managed to conquer the trophy.
Kerber shows a very good tennis tactic, serves efficiently, strikes heavily and varied and has a very good confidence in his own tennis.
The very good series of Germans continues here, and AO managed to pass the turn of Friedsam in 2 sets, Vekic in 2 sets, Sharapova in 2 sets and Hsieh in 3 sets. So Angi gets no less than 13 consecutive wins.

Madison Keys
She is a 22-year-old American girl, now at 20 WTA and very well-defined talent.
Madison participated in a single tour before the AO and was defeated in the first round of the Konta in 3 sets.
Keys is an offensive and very aggressive player.Serves very strong and efficient, strikes the ball and finds excellent angles, moves very well in the field and stays very well from a physical and mental point of view.
The American went up to quarters without losing the set and ran row by Wang, Alexandrova, Ana Bogdan and Caroline Garcia in eighth.

Direct meetings between Kerber and Keys
The two are very well versed in the 8th straight encounter, the score being 6-1 for Kerber
On the hardstock they met 5 times, and Kerber managed to impose himself every time. The last of the two took place in 2016 in the Tournament Final of the Champions, and Kerber won in 2 sets.