Aryna Sabalenka will go hunting for the 3rd consecutive Australian Open title; in the 2025 final in which she will play against the American Madison Keys.
A goal last scored by Martina Hingis in the three-year period 1997-1999. The semifinal against her friend and rival Paula Badosa experienced a complicated phase only at the beginning of the 1st set, when the Spaniard took the lead. Just enough time to immediately recover the break of disadvantage that the Belarusian became the absolute master of the court.
From that moment, Sabalenka dominated far and wide, closing the first set without further worries and managing every phase of the second set with extreme attention. To triumph again in Melbourne, she will have to overcome – as I said above – Keys. The American defeated Iga Swiatek by saving a match point.
Aryna Sabalenka becomes the first woman to reach 3 consecutive Australian Open Finals since Serena Williams.
Serena – 2015, 2016, 2017.
𝐀𝐫𝐲𝐧𝐚 – 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓.
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— The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) January 23, 2025
And at the press conference, the WTA No. 1 expressed all her joy for this new achievement.
“I’m super happy to be back in the final, it will be a great…
