Madison Keys is an American professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as world No. 7 by the WTA, achieved on 10 October 2016. Keys won her first Grand Slam tournament title at the 2025 Australian Open. She was also a major finalist at the 2017 US Open and has won ten WTA Tour-level titles.
At the Australian Open, she defeated tenth seed Danielle Collins, sixth seed Elena Rybakina, 28th seed Elina Svitolina and second seed Iga Świątek to reach the final of the tournament for the first time. As a result, she returned to the top 10 in the singles rankings. In the semifinals, Keys upset world No. 2, Iga Świątek, in three sets, coming from a set down (the first semifinalist to do so since Venus Williams in 2017) and a match point down to reach the second major final of her career, eight years after being the US Open runner-up. In the final, Keys then beat world No. 1, Aryna Sabalenka, to win her first major title and return to her career-high ranking of world No. 7. Keys became the first player to win a major title after defeating both the world No. 1 and world No. 2 since Svetlana Kuznetsova at the 2009 French Open. At 29, she became the oldest first-time women's Australian Open champion in the Open Era and the player with the longest gap between their first two major finals in that era.
