American Madison Keys knocked off top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka to win the Australian Open for her first career major championship.

4: Keys is only the fourth woman in the Open Era to defeat four Top 10 seeds en route to a Grand Slam singles title, joining Evonne Goolagong (Wimbledon 1980), Mary Pierce (Australian Open 1995) and ...

The others are Margaret Court, Evonne Goolagong, Steffi Graf and Monica ... which she followed up by making the semi-finals in Paris and at Wimbledon, before reaching the final of the US Open ...

The only woman to do that previously in a major was Australian Evonne Goolagong Cawley, who did it in 1980 at Wimbledon. On the way to the championship, Keys also had to win five matches in ...

Keys is the fourth woman to beat four top-10 seeds on route to a slam in the Open Era, joining Evonne Goolagong (Wimbledon 1980), Mary Pierce (Australian Open 1995) and Li Na (French Open 2011).

It's a feat tied only by Evonne Goolagong, who defeated four top-10 seeds at Wimbledon in 1980 and presented Keys her trophy. "I really felt like going into each match that if I could just try to ...

Madison Keys, center, of the U.S. reacts as she receives the the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup from Evonne Goolagong Cawley ... Bartoli’s 47 when she won Wimbledon in 2013. Keys did not take ...

That came on the back of previous victories over former Melbourne finalists Danielle Collins and Elena Rybakina, plus 2023 Wimbledon ... of Margaret Court, Evonne Goolagong, Steffi Graf, Monica ...