Aryna Sabalenka v Madison Keys: women’s Australian Open final - live

Sabalenka is 4-1 against Keys, with her most memorable win against the American coming at the was the 2023 US Open semifinal. Keys led the Belarusin 6-0, 5-3 before Sabalenka came back to win 0-6, 7-6 (1), 7-6 (5), preventing Keys from making the final in front of a home crowd.

I think one of the big things, after I lost to Aryna at the US Open, I felt like I tried to play safe, and I wasn’t playing how I wanted to in the big moments. That felt so bad. I just felt like if I can go out and do what I want to do and really just, again, be uncomfortable at times and just actually go for it and continue to play the way I play my best tennis, and I lose, then I can walk away and say, ‘OK, I did my best, she beat me, that’s fine.’

I didn’t want to be in the same situation where I kind of looked back at it and thought, Man, I should have gone for it. I didn’t want to have any regrets for not really laying it all out there.

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