Keys reveals the key to winning Australian Open: “It was a great obstacle …”

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Madison Keys (14th of the WTA ranking) takes the Australian Open 2025 Much more than the great title of his career. Learning, trust and growth as a competitor came hand in hand with each of the challenges it had to face. ANDn Her words, what was the key that promoted her towards consecration.

“I have had to face difficult things and that has forced me to try to work on the pressure I impose on myself.”began after the triumph over Aryna Sabalenka in the Grand Final of Australian Open 2025.

“Since I was very young, I felt that, if I never won a Grand Slam, it would not live up to what others thought it should be. It was a hard carrying charge, but I finally got to the point where I was proud of my career, with or without a Grand Slam. I was at a time when I didn’t care if that didn’t happen. I didn’t need it to feel that I had had a good career “followed the native of Illinois.

“In the last year, even with injuries and some hard defeats, I started to find myself. I started having a clearer head and being more present on the court. In the past, I sometimes felt that I could not connect my brain with my body. But last year I started taking each point at the same time instead of panic, “he explained about his growth as a tennis player.

“I think winning the game against IgA (Swiatek) was a great obstacle in which I felt I could do it. That he develops like this made me think that I could absolutely win today “confessed about the agonizing semifinal meeting in which he saved a Match Point Against the Polish to keep the 5-7, 6-1 and 7-6 (8) victory.

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