Defending champion Aryna Sabalenka will battle American 19th seed Madison Keys in the final on Saturday looking to become the first woman since Martina Hingis from 1997-99 to win the Australian Open title three times in a row.

Former teenage prodigy Madison Keys arrived in Australia with the goal of seeing how well she could perform with her 30th birthday approaching next month. Keys ended her season early in October last year and married her coach,

We're down to the final eight at the. Aryna Sabalenka and Coco Gauff will look to continue their strong runs and set up a blockbuster semifinal showdown. We break down the matchups.

Top seed Sabalenka is attempting to win the Australian Open for a third time in a row, something last achieved 26 years ago by Martina Hingis.

World No.1 Aryna Sabalenka looks unstoppable once again at the. The two-time champion raced past Paula Badosa to become the first woman to make three consecutive finals at Melbourne Park since Serena Williams.

She won her first major championship at Melbourne Park in 2023 ... woman to win the Australian Open three years in a row was Martina Hingis from 1997 to 1999. “I am super happy to be back ...

Aryna Sabalenka kept her hopes of winning a hattrick of Australian Open titles alive as she survived a scare to overcome Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the quarter-finals in Melbourne.

The Madison Keys who will play two-time defending champion Aryna Sabalenka for the title at the Australian Open on Saturday night is not the same Madison Keys who was the runner-up at the U.S. Open back in 2017,

Sabalenka and Keys played a three-set thriller in the semi-finals of last year’s US Open. Keys lost her bite under pressure and let it slip, but her nerve-rattling three-set triumph over Iga Swiatek in the semi-finals suggested a more merciless mentality.

That was followed by Goolagong defeating Navratilova in 1975 and Renata Tomanova in 1976, before reaching her seventh final in 1977 (Dec), defeating Helen Gourlay for her fourth title Down Under. Williams holds the record for the most women’s singles titles won in the Open Era, and also for the most finals reached at the tournament.

Paula Badosa beats Coco Gauff to reach Australian Open semi-finals; defending-champion Aryna Sabalenka survives scare to beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in three sets; watch all the action from the ATP and WTA Tours on Sky Sports Tennis,