2025 Australian Tennis Open: American player Madison Keys defeated Arryna Sabalenka to win the first Grand Slam championship in history
It has been produced one after another at the Australian Tennis Open in 2025. -3, 2-6 defeated the world's ranking first and two defending champions Aryna Sabalenka, and won her first Grand Slam champion at 7-5.
Saturday's extraordinary victory marked the first Grand Slam champion of the 29 -year -old American. Since Case lost in the 2017 U.S. Open, it has been eight years since entering the Grand Slam finals. She said that she has been recalling this game in the past few years. The best achievement she achieved before was in 2015 ten years ago, when she reached the semi -finals.
Case became the first American woman to win the Australian Tennis Open Championship after Sophia Kayen in 2020.
Sabaronka has won the past two Australian Open -and the 2024 U.S. Open -but Case has been closely behind the moment the competition. In the first game, Case broke Sabaronka's serve and did not look back. In the end, the first set was 5-1. Even when he lost the game at the end of the game, Case immediately broke the Sabaronka's serve again and got rid of the opportunity to miss it.
Cases in the second set and the first game, seemed to have firmly controlled the game. However, Sabaronka kept calm and won the next five games, winning the lost confidence and the momentum of the game.
This laid the foundation for the third set of tension, and the two players kept the serve in the first 11 games. The 6-5 leading Case finally successfully held Sabaronka's serve and established two championships. She won his first championship in the second set of strong cross -field winning balls.
With a strong serving and positive hand, Kece led all the way in the championship, wave after wave, a total of four times. In the third round, American players defeated Tennier Collins, who ranked tenth, and then unexpectedly defeated Elena Rayakina in the fourth round. In the quarter -finals, Case defeated the 28th player Elena Switina after the first failure. Subsequently, in the semi -finals, Case defeated Iga Swack, who ranked second in the semi -final victory of the Third Line Drue Bureau to enter the finals.
Case turned into a professional player 16 years ago and experienced a long climbing to this moment. Her highest world ranking was 7th in 2016. After the highest victory in Sabaronka's career, she may rise rapidly in 2025.