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Rio 2016 tennis: Madison Keys vs. Petra Kvitova time, TV schedule and live stream for women’s bronze medal match

Keys and Kvitova will battle over the bronze medal at the Rio Olympics on Saturday.

Aug 13, 2016, 12:00 PM UTC

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Though Serena Williams and Venus Williams are eliminated from singles and doubles competition, there stands a chance for an American woman to bring home Olympic hardware for the United States. Madison Keys, the first American woman to debut in the top 10 since Serena did it in the 90s, lost her semifinal match to Angelique Kerber, but she will face Petra Kvitova in the bronze meal match in Rio on Saturday.

The bronze medal match will be televised on Bravo beginning at 11 a.m. ET, with online streaming available through NBC Sports.

Keys, 21, is the No. 9 player in the world and was seeded seventh for the Olympics. Her opponent, Petra Kvitova, was seeded 11th but has much more experience than Keys and was once the second-ranked player in the world. She has two Grand Slam finals wins and while she is the lower seed, many think her previous experience will suit her well in the bronze medal matchup.

The two have only ever played each other four times, and each time a different person has won. Kvitova took the first meeting in 2013, Keys the next at the Australian Open in 2015, Kvitova on the hard courts of New Haven in 2015 an most recently, Keys won on the clay of the Rome Masters earlier this year.

Keys has been playing the best tennis of her career to this point, and only fell in the semifinals to Kerber, the second seed and favorite to win a gold medal on Saturday with the Williams sisters out of the tournament. If Keys can manage to bring home the bronze, it will be a lot less than the US was hoping for at the start of the Olympics, but much more than they expected when Venus went out on Day 1 and Serena went out in the third round.

Kerber will face Monica Puig, who bested Kvitova in the other semifinal match, later on Saturday. The match will be available on Bravo. Live streams will be available via NBC, as usual.