Madison Keys may have won the title at the 2025 Australian Open but there were a myriad of players leaving Melbourne who can leave with their heads held high. In this article, we look at the main players from the top of the draw down who made a very good account of their fortnight. Keys defeated Aryna Sabalenka in the final 6-3, 2-6, 7-5 to win her maiden Grand Slam in a run that captured the hearts and minds of those who follow women's tennis.
But that is just one result that was unpredictable. WTA Winners from Australian Open Madison Keys (Winner) Starting off of course with the champion in Australia, Madison Keys has always been as harsh as it sounds a nearly woman. She reached the final of the 2017 US Open and many wondered whether she would ever ascend that summit again.
She left that press conference in tears and has since meddled in winning titles but nothing to the same level. She has also battled real injury hell in the past 12 months. But the last few weeks have perhaps been the best of her life.
She ended the season getting married to her long-time coach Bjorn Fratalangelo and went into the new season fit and healthy. She won Adelaide in the lead-up albeit as Sabalenka proved again, the warm-up win is not the caveat to success. The Brisbane curse is very much still real.
But perhaps it was the greatest Women's Grand Slam run of the modern era, she beat Sabalenka, Swiatek, Svitolina, Elena Rybakina and Danielle Collins. Not to mention Ann Li and Elena-Gabriela Ruse..
