Madison Keys
Madison Keys (born February 17, 1995) is an American professional tennis player. She has been WTA rankings, ranked as high as world No. 5 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association, WTA. Keys has won ten WTA Tour-level career singles ...
defeated two-time defending champion
Aryna Sabalenka
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in the final, 6–3, 2–6, 7–5 to win the women's singles tennis title at the
2025 Australian Open
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. It was her first
major
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title. Keys
saved a match point en route to the title, in the semifinals against
Iga Świątek
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. She was the fourth woman in the
Open Era
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(after
Evonne Goolagong Cawley
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at the
1980 Wimbledon Championships
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,
Mary Pierce
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at the
1995 Australian Open
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and
Li Na
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at the
2011 French Open
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) to defeat four top-10 seeds en route to a major title.
Sabalenka was attempting to become the first woman to win three consecutive Australian Open singles titles since
Martina Hingis
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in
1999
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. She retained the
world No. 1 singles ranking after Świątek lost in the semifinals.
Coco Gauff
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was also in contention for the top ranking at the beginning of the tournament.
Eva Lys
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was the first
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to reach the fourth round of the women's singles event in the Open Era, and only the sixth to do so at any major in the Open Era.
Seeds
Draw
Finals
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Bottom half
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
Championship match statistics
Seeded players
The following are the seeded players. Seedings are based on WTA rankings as of 6 January 2025. Rankings and points before are as of 13 January 2025.
Withdrawn players
The following players would have been seeded, but withdrew before the tournament began.
Other entry information
Wildcards
Protected ranking
Qualifiers
Lucky losers
Withdrawals
The entry list was released by
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based on the WTA rankings for the week of 2 December 2024.
‡ – withdrew from entry list before qualifying began
@ – withdrew from entry list after qualifying began
§ – withdrew from main draw
See also
*
2025 Australian Open – Men's singles
References
External links
Draw
Women's Singles
Australian Open
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Australian Open (tennis) by year – Women's singles
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