With women’s tennis on the verge of an epic showdown between its top two players with the Australian Open title on the line, Keys, the 29-year-old American, crashed the party. She stormed back against Iga Swiatek to win their semifinal 5-7, 6-1, 7-6 (10-8).
Australian Open women’s champion Madison Keys has returned to her career-best ranking and joins three other American women in the WTA top 10, while men’s champion Jannik Sinner maintained his signific
Madison finds the Keys and coach Murray impresses – what we learned in Melbourne - Sinner successfully defended his title and tightened his stranglehold on men’s tennis, while Keys finally fulfilled her teenage promise.
Bjorn Fratangelo praised the perseverance of wife Madison Keys after she finally achieved her dream of winning a grand-slam title. The 29-year-old defeated two-time defending champion Aryna Sabalenka in a thrilling contest at the Australian Open to fulfil the predictions of those who saw her burst onto the scene as a teenage prodigy.
Keys said she first tried speaking with a sports psychologist when she was around 18 or 19, then tried working with others.
Aryna Sabalenka has come up one match shy in her bid for a third consecutive Australian Open title. After 6-3, 2-6, 7-5 loss to Madison Keys in the final on Saturday, Sabalenka threw her racket on the sideline,
Factbox on American Madison Keys, who beat world number one Aryna Sabalenka 6-3 2-6 7-5 in the Australian Open final on Saturday to win her first major title.
Former teenage prodigy Madison Keys arrived in Australia with the goal of seeing how well she could perform with her 30th birthday approaching next month.
Aryna Sabalenka hopes to do something no woman has in more than a quarter of a century: win a third consecutive Australian Open championship
Madison Keys made history on Saturday, becoming the oldest woman to win her first Grand Slam title at the 2025 Australian Open. The post ‘Didn’t Know What Tennis Was’- Madison Keys Unveils How American Idol’s Fashion Outing Inspired Her Tennis Dream appeared first on EssentiallySports.