Australian Open Fast Hits: Sabalenka ‘Hate’ his team as Keys are doing well

Madison Keys is expiring some Grand Slam Demons like a rare underdog that is doing well in Melbourne, while Aryna Sabalenka gets rid of losing at the Australian Open.

Here are the fast hits from the penultimate day of Melbourne Park.

1. Expulsion demons

When Keys broke Sabalenka in the first match of the final, nobody flipped out so much. After all, her semi -finals started with four straight breaks of the serve, and the first set against ig świątek still took an hour to solve.

But on Sunday night, Keys consolidated himself. Then it broke back. And after 20 minutes, the 19th seed was up 5-1 and had the world’s number one serving to stay alive in the opening set.

At a moment, Keys surpassed his performance from her first and only second excursion in a Grand Slam final as she won only three games against Sloane Stephens in 2017 US Open.

After getting over the hump, she admitted that she feared she would never get a chance after missing out on eight years ago.

2. Sabalenka ‘hate’ his team

The moment Keys’ backhand winner came by to deny Sabalenka a third Australian Open crown in a row, the Belaruser looked up at her box and she delivered some truths from home.

After a warm embrace with the new master, Sabalenka went to his chair and torn her rackets on the blue hardcourt before hanging a towel over her head to hide her tears.

As Keys and her team celebrated the victory, Sabalenka quickly emerged off the field to compose herself and she made it marvelous.

When she was asked to talk to the unknown second place, Sabalenka was back to be wise.

After fun having posed next to the winner’s Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup, she credited Keys and looked up at the team in her player box.

“No really, thank you so much everything you do to me and blah blah blah. No matter what I love you, even if we lost.”

3. A rare underdog story in Melbourne Park

The Australian Open once had a reputation like Grand Slam, where the underdogs would thrive, but it has really been a happy hunting area for the best seeds for the most part.

Madison Keys were ranked 20 when the seeds were settled and the tournament started two Sundays ago.

While her location burst up to 14 on the first Monday and she will climb into the top 10 again for the first time since 2023 after her triumph, Keys, who is 19. Seed is the lowest player who has won the singles title in Melbourne in 18 years.

In 2007, Serena Williams was on the comeback track from ankle and knee injuries and joined the draw as the most scary world number 81 in history.

Williams tore through the tournament and dismantled Maria Sharapova 6-1, 6-2 in the final in just over an hour for his 12th Grand Slam title.

On the men’s side of the draw, you have to return to the world’s number 212 Mark Edmondson in 1976 to find a master that is located lower than Keys.

4. Marathon Herredouble Final

Tiebreakers are always always excited. The tension increases when it is in the first set of a Grand Slam final.

The Italian third -seeded Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori against the sixth of Sixed Helri Heliovaara (Finland) and Henry Patten (UK) experienced the drama with a tiebreaker in the first set in their men’s double final.

The first team that scores at least seven points, leading with two winner. Easy not?

These four men produced an epic with 34 points that ended up with the Italian third won 18-16.

It was Bolelli and Vavassori’s sixth set point when they finally got the job done, in a tiebreak that lasted more than 24 minutes. The whole set lasted 87 minutes.

Save a thought to Heliovaara and Pattern, which had 10 setpoints but couldn’t win any of them.

Heliovaara and Pattern would continue to win the title, but only after another tiebreaker in the second set – albeit a much shorter.

5. What time is the Australian Open Men’s Single Final?

Defending champion and world number one Jannik Sinner Facing opposite Germany’s number two in the world Alexander Zverev in the men’s singles final of the Australian Open 2025.

Sinner tries to win his third Grand Slam, after 2024 Australian Open and the US Open.

Zverev is in search of his Virgin Grand Slam Triumph. He has been second place at the US Open and 2024 French Open.

It is when players are expected to be on the field for the men’s final

• 19:30 AEDT: NSW, VIC, TAS, ACT
• 18.30 AEST: Queensland
• 19:00 Acdt: South Australia
• 18:00 ACST: Northern Territory
• 16:30 AWST: Western Australia