US tennis player Madison Keys won his first Grand Slam title on Saturday by downloading the back champion and 1 Arina Sabalenka in Australia’s final of Australia in 2025.
On the heels of the three semi-finals of # 2 iga świątek last Thursday, with 6-3, 2-6, 7-5 Saturday, the victory made her the first toy that upset both the world # 1 and the No. 1, and No. 1. 2 In the same great helmet after Saint Kuznetsova did this at the French Open in 2009. The 29-year-old is also the first to make it in Melbourne after Serena Williams in 2005.
Only three other WTA players have picked up Grand Slam’s main draws before winning their first title. On Saturday, Keys tied Caroline Wozniacki for making the most Astralian open performances of Main-Draw Singles before raising the trophy.
Keys Australian Open Open included five wins over settled opponents, four of them in the Top 10 of the WTA entering the tournament. Plus, with five wins with three sets, Keys tied the record for the most wins of three sets at each of the four major strokes.
None of these records compares to winning her first specialty.
“I wanted this for so long,” said Keys, who kept his trophy during the after -match ceremony.
The key championship was years in the creation
Keys broke out on the professional scene on her 14th birthday in 2009 and for the bigger part of the last decade was the top 20.
The US star has appeared at least in the quarterfinals in all four majors many times. However, she had only one Grand Slam finale under her belt before the championship match this weekend – an open US loss in 2017 by Sloan Stevens.
In the end, she needed to give up her despair to win a helmet to actually stab this elusive trophy.
“I did a lot of work to not need anymore [winning a Grand Slam]”Keys explained after her victory.” I really wanted it, but it is no longer the thing that will determine me and somehow I released this weight, finally I gave myself the opportunity to play for it. “
Slam Win Returns the keys to the top 10 of WTA
WTA updated its ranking early Monday, with Keys’s breakthrough implementation to her 7-first-top 10 slot from January 2023. The new rank also tied her career, with Keys being the first in No. 7 in October 2016.
Keys’ rise also reinforces the United States as perhaps the nation that is most forthcoming with the best talents of sports. The United States is now proud of four players in the top 10, with Keys joining # 3 Coco Guff, No. 6 Jessica Pegula and No. 9 Emma Navarro. No other nation has more than one athlete in this elite level.
This was said to be the best stay of WTA on Monday on Monday. Despite their losses on the Australian Open, all four best seeds – Sabalenka, świątek, Gauf and No. 4 Jasmine Paolini – retained their best places.