She is the oldest woman to become a first-time Slam champ since Flavia Pennetta was 33 at the 2015 U.S. Open. This was the 46th Slam appearance for Keys.
Aryna Sabalenka said she was proud to have reached three Australian Open finals in a row but admitted after losing Saturday's decider to Madison Keys: "It's trophy or nothing."
World number one Aryna Sabalenka swept into the quarterfinals at a scorching-hot Australian Open on Sunday and was joined by Coco Gauff, while Carlos Alcar..
Aryna Sabalenka hopes to do something no woman has in more than a quarter of a century: win a third consecutive Australian Open championship
The 29-year-old from Rock Island, Illinois, beat the No. 1-ranked woman and two-time defending Australian Open champion at Melbourne Park Saturday night.
Madison Keys has taken the first set 6-3 off two-time defending champion Aryna Sabalenka in the Australian Open women’s final. Sabalenka is hoping to do something no woman has in
Play has started in the Australian Open women’s final between Aryna Sabalenka and Madison Keys. Top-ranked Sabalenka is serving first after Keys won the coin toss and
Aryna Sabalenka has moved one win away from becoming the first woman since 1999 to win three consecutive Australian Open titles
It was only after accepting she might never capture a Slam title, and would be fine with that — a change that came after years of therapy — that Keys actually got there.
Madison Keys of the United States upset two-time defending champion Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus 6-3, 2-6, 7-5 in the Australian Open final on Saturday night to collect her first Grand Slam title at age 29.
Be brave. Go for it. Those were the mantras Madison Keys turned to as she confronted the most significant points of her tennis career, trapped in the cauldron of a third set that was tied at 5-all, 30-all in the Australian Open final against two-time defending champion Aryna Sabalenka on Saturday.
Aryna Sabalenka saw her two-year reign at the Australian Open end after losing to Madison Keys in the final – and she didn’t take it well.