The American tennis star Madison Keys made number 1 Aryna Sabalenka from Streek and won the Australian Open On Saturday.
Keys, 29, won 6-3, 2-6, 7-5 in the hard-fought competition and thus won her very first game Grand Slam tournament.
Keys finished with only one won point more than Sabalenka in general and won 92 points compared to Sabalenkas 91.
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Madison Keys, Midden, from the US reacts from the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup from Evonne Goolagong Cawley after beating Aryna Sabalenka from Wit-Russia in the final of the ladies singles on the Australian Open Tennis Championship in Melbourne, Australia, on Saturday January 25. 2025. (AP photo/by Han Guan)
Sabalenka tried to win her third consecutive Australian Open, which was last achieved – by Martina Hingis – from 1997 to 1999.
This was the second time in Keys’ career that she had a chance to win a big title, her last was a 6-3, 6-0 defeat against fellow countryman Sloane Stephens in the 2017 game. US Open.
Keys had high expectations of herself in her tennis career, but started accepting that she might never win a Grand Slam title.
“From an early age I had the feeling that if I had never won a Grand Slam, I would not have met what people thought I should have been. That was a pretty heavy burden to carry,” Keys said. .
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Madison Keys from the US responds during her final match for the ladies’ skeleton play against Aryna Sabalenka from Belarus at the Australian Open Tennis Championship in Melbourne, Australia, Saturday 25 January 2025. (AP photo/Vincent Thian)
“So I finally came to the point when I was proud of myself and proud of my career, with or without Grand Slam. I finally came to see when I thought it would be good when it didn’t happen. I didn’t need it.” To get the feeling that I have had a good career or that I have to talk about me as a great tennis player.
“I want to finally let go of those internal conversations that I had just given myself the opportunity to actually go out and play tennis very well to actually win a Grand Slam.”
Not only Keys disrupted the number 1 Sabalenka, but she also defeated number 2 Iga świątek in the semi-finals on the way to her victory over the Australian open title.
Keys was the first woman since then Serena Williams In 2005 to beat the two best players of the WTA in Melbourne Park. She said that beating Swiateek gave her the confidence that she could beat Sabalenka.
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During a press conference, Madison Keys from the US after beating Aryna Sabalenka from Belarus in the final of the ladies singles on the Australian Open Tennis Championship to win the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup, in Melbourne, Australia, Saturday 25 January 2025. (AP photo/Vincent Thian)
“Winning that match last against Iga was really a big obstacle,” said Keys. “I always believed that I could do it, but to do it that way, I really thought to myself after the game that I can absolutely win on Saturday.”
This was the 46th SLAM performance by Keys, the third most before they won a big title for ladies, namely only the 49 of Flavia Pennetta and the 47 of Marion Bartoli before they won.
“I have not always believed that I could return to this point. But to be able to do it and win, it means everything for me.”
The Associated Press has contributed to this report.
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