Australian Open 2025 results: Madison Keys fulfils teenage expectations by winning Melbourne title
From the teenager to the injured “tingling” tour, the glory of Madison Keys’s road to the Grand Slam has been long and complicated.
The new Australian Open champion broke her 14 years old and was immediately regarded as the main champion of the future in the WTA tour.
Now, a few weeks before her 30 -year -old life, Americans finally achieved her goal.
Keys defeated the defending champion Arina Sabalenka twice in the Saturday finals and won an impressive game in Melbourne Park.
“From a very young age, I think if I have never won the Grand Slam, then I will not live up to what people think.”
“That’s a big burden.”
The Melbourne champion of the key is not easy.
In April 2009, she was 14 years old and 48 days old. She became the youngest player since Martina Hingis in 1994 and won the tournament.
Six years later, she entered the Australian Open semi -finals, and then took a step further at the 2017 U.S. Open.
However, the key was frozen in her first major final. In a game, she only won three games against Sloane Stephens, and she thought of “endlessly in the past eight years.”
Although she has entered the other five major semi -finals since then, the key has been struggling with the injury problem, and she withdrew from the top 50 in the world from 2022
“I have to go through some difficult things.”
“This forced me to look at myself in the mirror and try to deal with the internal pressure I applied.
“I finally reached the point where I was proud of myself and my career.
“I think let go of this internal conversation so that I can go out to play some very good tennis.”
