The Madison Keys who will play two-time defending champion Aryna Sabalenka for the title at the Australian Open on Saturday night is not the same Madison Keys who was the runner-up at the U.S. Open back in 2017,

Aryna Sabalenka plays Sloane Stephens in the first round of the 2025 Australian Open. Our Australian Open odds series has our Sabalenka-Stephens prediction, odds and pick. Find out how to watch Sabalenka-Stephens.

World No. 1 and defending Australian Open champion Aryna Sabalenka defeated Sloane Stephens in her first round match.

Aryna Sabalenka has retirement on her mind. The world No. 1 revealed in a video posted right before the start of her quest to three-peat at the 2025 Australian Open that she wants to have kids sooner rather than later, and at age 26, that could mean retiring earlier than perhaps many expected.

There is plenty of intrigue for American tennis fans with regards to the 2025 Australian Open Women’s Final, as Madison Keys looks for her first Grand Slam title in her 46th event. This is only Keys’ second Grand Slam final appearance (and first since 2017),

It has been over seven years since Madison Keys crushed CoCo Vandeweghe in the 2017 US Open semifinal. Sloane Stephens defeated her close friend in the final, and it seemed like Keys might never get another opportunity to play in a Grand Slam final after suffering some heartbreaking moments in the years that followed.