Madison Keys has revealed that she had to beg her husband to train her during the deepest moments of despair last year, and now her act of self -active has helped her to boost her towards the greatest victory of her career.
The newly crowned champion of the Australian Open paid a moving tribute to her united team after getting an elusive first crown of Grand Slam with a shivering 6-3, 2-6 and 7-5 on the world number one, Aryna Sabalenka, in Melbourne Park on Monday. Saturday night.
But Keys kept his most special praise for his life partner Bjorn Fratangelo, and gave credit to the 31 -year -old, who was once among the 100 best male professionals, for reliving his career.
Keys, former Junior Prodigio who arrived at the professional scene at age 14, feared that his best opportunities to capture a slam would have been left behind after a heartbreaking defeat in the semifinal of the US Open against Sabalenka in 2023.
The American won the first set 6-0, but lost in the tiebreaker of the third set after serving the game.
Last year he was also depressing, with Keys outside the Australian Open due to an injury before being forced to leave for a distension in the Corva’s tendon while led the eventual runner-up Jasmine Paolini 5-2 in the fourth round of Wimbledon.
Madison Keys poses with the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup on Sunday after his vertiginous victory in three sets about Aryna Sabalenka at the Australian Open.

Keys’s husband, Bjorn Fratangelo (in the photo together), played an important role in the surprising race change that led her to her first victory in a Grand Slam.
The runner -up of the 2017 United States Open also lost the Olympic Games in Paris and crashed into the third round in New York.
That’s why Keys thought something had to change.
Then, approaching 30 next month, Keys changed coach and changed all his approach to the game.
“I have the best team,” he said while holding the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup.
“They really believed in me in the moments when I did not believe in myself and basically helped me to rebuild me completely after some quite serious injuries last year.”
“And I have the best and most comprehensive husband in the world, that I didn’t even want to train and I said:” Please come with me. “
“It was necessary to press a bit and he has been the one who has supported me the most and has fully believed in me in every step of the road.”
“If it weren’t for those three people who have been encouraging me all week, in all three sets games, I wouldn’t be here.”

Fratangelo (in the photo with Keys at his wedding last November) resigned his own career as a player in a moving sacrifice that has now paid off in the best possible way.
Fratangelo left his career as a player to dedicate himself to the search for his wife of the Gloria del Grand Slam in the type of romantic gesture on which a film could be made.
The couple met while they trained together in Florida and their romance flourished in 2017.
They committed six years later and married just last November, in a ceremony that Keys described as the best weekend of his life, and that includes the victory in the Open.
Wilson’s racket change to Yonex, who is attributed to having played an important role in his ascent to Slam’s title, was the idea of Fratangelo, who urged her to strive in uncomfortable territory, with surprising results.
In an incredible race towards the title, Keys, still undefeated in 2025 after opening the year with a victory at the Adelaide International, also eliminated the number 10 of the world and runner -up of the 2022 Open, Danielle Collins, at the head of the standard head number 28, Elina Svitolina, and the second classified. IGA Swiatek after saving a party point in the semifinals.
His greatest hair, however, was undoubtedly Sabalenka, the first head of series, which aspired to become the first woman of this century to get a tit-trick on Melbourne Park.
To stop the bellrussic power, Keys knew that he had to break the shackles and go for all, whatever happens.
“My only goal was to make myself play as I wanted and not regret it,” said the number 14 of the world, who will return to the seventh place, the best of his career, in the new ranking on Monday.

The powerful tennis couple broke down after Keys became the queen of Melbourne Park on Saturday night.
“Because the last time I played against Sabalenka in the US Open, I left the court and regretted a lot because, at any important time, I felt that I went back.
“She played as she wanted last time and I was going to be absolutely well if she played as she wanted and she beat me.”
‘Then, if that were how it happened, no problem.
“But that was my only goal and I feel that I did it and told myself: ‘He tries to reach the next point’.”
“It really was simply:” Try to get out of the court, whatever happens and be proud of yourself. “
“He told myself:” Be brave, go after your shots. “You know she will go behind them, so I didn’t want to stay behind points.
“And once I had to endure and climb 6-5 (in the decisive set), I told myself: ‘Pass whatever happens, there is a tie In myself. ‘
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