Aryna Sabalenka broke down to cry under her towel after losing the Australian Open final against Madison Keys.
The world number one crashed its racket against the ground with frustration after succumbing 3-6, 6-2, 5-7 against the American.
He denied Sabalenka a third consecutive win at the Australian Open after winning the tournament in 2034 and 2024.
The Belarusian had to reach the final for the bad, beating her friend Paula Badosa in the semifinals, but could not gather the strength to overcome one of the greatest batters in the game.
After congratulating Keys, Sabalenka covered her face with a towel in front of the 15,000 fans in the Rod Laver Arena before leaving furious to her locker room.
This was the first Grand Slam final of Keys since 2017 and his first victory in a Major, which marked a surprise against the very desired Sabalenka.
Aryna Sabalenka star her racket against the ground after losing the final of the Australian Open

He hid his face under the towel in an emotional moment after losing to Madison Keys.

Keys, number 19 of the world, raised his first Grand Slam title after his first final in eight long years
Keys, number 19 of the world, becomes the fourth oldest woman to win her first Grand Slam crown at the age of 29.
“I wanted this for so long that I never knew if I would be in this position again,” Keys said.
The 29 -year -old admitted that he had “thought of that game incessantly for the past eight years” and was clear from the beginning that would not be repeated.
Rather, it was Sabalenka, double defender champion, who started nervous, committing two double faults in the first game to grant a break.
In 1-3, he committed a double foul to grant a breakdown and Keys cut a right-wing blow to the Sabalenka style that seized the court and bounced too low to drive it.
In the next game, Keys played an exceptional cross -updated shot, a note of pure poetry in the middle of heavy metal. Carlos Alcaraz would have been proud of such a shot and it was a weapon that simply was not in Keys’s armory a year ago.
As the coach and husband Bjorn Fratangelo said before the final: “sharpening the ax can take you very far, but sometimes you only need new tools.” Well, that defensive right blow, sliding like a bird on water, was a new tool and that left was another.
If Keys needed any bulwark against complacency, then he could remember the semifinal of the US Open of 2023, when he lost to Sabalenka in a heartbreaking way after winning the first set 6-0.

Keys is finally Grand Slam champion, fulfilling the destiny that had been drawn to him since he became professional at the early age of 14.

After saving a party point to overcome the number 2 in the world, IgA Swiatek, in the semifinals, Keys beat the world number 1, Sabalenka, 6-3, 2-6, 7-5.
What a merit for them to have been able to combine marital happiness with the stormy relationship between coach and player. Everything could have come out so badly; It matters little if a racket is Wilson or Yonex when your wife buries it in the skull.
Sabalenka returned to the set, increasing the speed of her ball.
With a service of 5-3, 30-30, Sabalenka was on the rise. A control here would have forced Keys to serve during the set after having lost three games in a row. But a fourth double foul chose the most inopportune moment to arrive and then Keys shot a setback in the line to take the set.
Sabalenka had at least achieved what Swiatek had not achieved in the second set of the semifinal: he had stopped hemorrhage and had established a speed obstacle to the Keys truck that moved.
She was missing some great opportunities in the first game of the second set, with the Keys service, dodging a shot and, at the break, scoring a simple pass.
“Come on Tigre, come on girl,” said a voice between the crowd and Sabalenka came forward to take the lead, throwing a winning setback. I was playing faster and more flat, forcing Keys to defend (something unlikely) or attack from less promising positions.
Sabalenka was going up the volume now, a roar of effort became a shout of triumph while throwing a shot to make a double break in the way to match the game.
Then there were two quite unilateral sets, and now we expected a decisive game. The exceptional serve continued, with 10 follows and zero break points. Both women saw it as if it were an Australian football; Some of the shots left us breathless.

Keys had longed for this; I yearned for the validation of an important title that paralyzed it.
As the final stages approached, none of the women showed a fear of fear and faced the fat fish when it was available. The best of all came when Keys served with 5-5, 30-30, a high pressure point. Sabalenka threw a right -wing blow and Keys crouched down and threw a half volley in response that should have left brands of burns on the blue court.
That left Sabalenka with the serve to stay in the game for the second time and Keys connected a first service for a clean winner that put 0-30 up. He attacked again with 15-30 and added two championship points.
A great Sabalenka service fell, then another, but this time Keys beat him and hit that setback in the line. He came back but there was no fear, no doubt, no nerves.
That fierce right -wing coup that has been his presentation card since his adolescence hit once; He hit twice and ended.
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