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Keys: Sveta's Self Hair Cut Shocking

Madison Keys knows how it feels to be pelted by a pony-tail during a rally.

So the seventh-seeded American isn't splitting hairs calling Svetlana Kuznetsova's self hair-cut on court a "shocking" yet practical act.

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Keys credited Kuznetsova for taking the scissors into her own hands, but called the shearing shocking insisting she won't be doing any self snipping.

"She cut a lot off," Keys said of Kuznetsova. "Clearly it wasn't going into her face anymore. That was shocking. I will never be doing that. Ever. Good for her for giving herself a haircut."

The youngest player in the WTA Finals field opts for the old-school bun to prevent any hair-raising issues on court.

"I think I've pretty much always been a bun person," Keys said. "I don't like if it's moving around or if I can feel it or anything like that. I usually have like seven hair ties in so that it doesn't move either, and I pretty much figured that out from day one and I've never turned back."

"I've tried a ponytail or a braid before. Hit me in the face. Wasn't digging it. Instead of cutting my hair I just put it in a bun."

Kuznetsova has received several texts and emails from hair stylists offering to cut her hair; her regular hair stylist joked "I'm going to kill you," she said.

"It doesn't look so good, but if I tell you the truth I didn't dry it and look at it properly," Kuznetsova said of her trim job. "Because I don't want to be really depressed."

Ana Ivanovic has a solution for long-haired pros and amateurs alike.

Before the US Open, the former No. 1 shot this Vogue video as a tutorial on how to create the perfect ponytail for players to prevent the flying-hair facial shots both Kuznetsova and Keys experienced.

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