Episode 2825
Madison Keys
Sun, 2025-Jan-26 01:44 UTC
Length - 3:02
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With 663,472 views on Saturday, 25 January 2025 our article of the day is Madison Keys.
Madison Keys (born February 17, 1995) 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 at the 2025 Australian Open. She was also a finalist at the 2017 US Open, and has won ten WTA Tour-level titles.
Keys was inspired to start playing tennis after watching Venus Williams at Wimbledon on TV. Originally from the Quad Cities, she moved to Florida to train at the Evert Tennis Academy. Keys turned professional on her 14th birthday, becoming one of the youngest players to win a WTA Tour level match a few months later. Keys first entered the top 100 of the WTA rankings in 2013 at the age of 17. She had her first breakthrough at a major in early 2015 when she reached the semifinals of the Australian Open as a teenager.
Known for a fast serve and one of the most powerful forehands in the game, Keys has used her aggressive playing style to become one of the leaders of her generation of American tennis, alongside Sloane Stephens, CoCo Vandeweghe, and Sofia Kenin. She debuted in the top 10 of the WTA rankings in 2016, becoming the first American woman to realize this milestone since Serena Williams 17 years earlier. When Keys and Stephens faced off against each other in the 2017 US Open final, they became the first American women other than the Williams sisters to contest a major singles final since 2005. Keys has had success on all surfaces, winning at least one title on each and having reached at least the quarterfinals of all four majors.
In 2025, Keys won the singles title at the 2025 Australian Open to claim her first major, defeating four top ten players en route, including world No. 2 Iga Świątek in the semifinals and two-time defending champion and world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka in the final.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:44 UTC on Sunday, 26 January 2025.
For the full current version of the article, see Madison Keys on Wikipedia.
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