Madison Keys collecting record traits

Madison Keys picked up his first Grand Slam-Titel Gains on Saturday and beat top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka in the Australian open finale.

Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup comes with a record -breaking price of $ 2.2 million ($ 3.5 million Australian dollars). The Australian Open increased his prize money pool by approx. 11 percent ahead of this year’s event, although its top payout is still ranking under what was offered at each of the other three Grand Slam events in 2024.

Keys’s Victory pushes his career prishaul to more than $ 21 million, according to Women’s Tennis Association’s accounting, including $ 170,815 already earned in the beginning 2025 season.

Keys entered the Australian Open as No. 19 seeds, but ran on a hot hand after winning Adelaide International on January 11.

Her greatest success has been long. Keys debuted in 2009 at the age of 14 after moving with his mother from Illinois to Florida as a 10-year-old to train at the Evert Tennis Academy.

She made attention to tour with a victory at the US Open as a 16-year-old in 2011 and then reached her first Grand Slam final in New York in 2017. But after losing in just that day, she struggled to return to Tennis’ top stages.

She beat three Grand Slam winners in Australia, including the world # 2 Iga Swatek before passing Sabalenka. Keys grabbed the first set 6-3, fell the second 2-6 and then held on for a 7-5 win in the last round of the last set and claimed the victory with a pre-hand winner at his second championship point.

She embraced her husband and coach Bjorn Fratangano, a former pro herself, shortly after winning the match.

“From a beautiful young age, I felt that if I never won a grand slam, I wouldn’t have lived up to what people thought I should have been,” Keys said during a press conference after postmatch. “It was a pretty heavy burden for kind to carry around.”

A month shy 30 years, Keys became the oldest first-time single single master since 33-year-old Flavia Pennetta in 2015. No American male or woman has been older at the time of their first singles Grand Slam Event Triumph. With the victory, Keys will also match her career loudly as the seventh-ranked WTA player, a place she first achieved in 2016. Four American women are now sitting in the top 10.

“I’ve wanted this for so long,” Keys said after her victory, “and I didn’t know if I would ever return to this position.”