The Women's Final of the 2025 Australian Open is just under an hour away. But who will prevail as Aryna Sabalenka and Madison Keys. It's time to have your say on our poll.
Sabalenka comes into the clash as the out and out favourite to make it three in a row in Melbourne. She has been the imperious WTA Queen over the past 12 months and this was evidenced also by her winning the US Open for the first time too.
The Belarusian similar to Jannik Sinner has taken top spot from an established name in this case Iga Swiatek albeit not with as much stock as Novak Djokovic who led the men's game prior to Sinner's explosion and has made it her own.
She has defended World No.1 and won't lose it to the player that she is facing in the final. Albeit the new World No.8 who would rise past Zheng Qinwen and sit just behind Jessica Pegula and Elena Rybakina with the title and has been an incredible success story.
Defeating Iga Swiatek in a match that will be remembered already as a match of the year candidate when we do the awards at the end of the season, she reaches a Grand Slam final nearly eight years after her first. With the rise of the Americans, perhaps Keys has been a forgotten quantity but has risen past Gauff, Navarro and Pegula who perhaps would've got further top billing over her this fortnight.
Also in addition, this final removes a curse. Both players won titles in the lead up to the Australian Open in Brisbane and Adelaide. Usually winning before a Grand Slam isn't a barometer of success and usually leads to early defeat, case and point Elena Rybakina post Brisbane last year. So both have emerged from that mould too.
Will it be a foregone conclusion or will Keys rise to the occasion in what would be an ultimate shock? Time will tell but you can decide who will rise as champion.
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