After the two women's singles semifinals of the Australian Open, no one expected that Keys would disrupt the game at a crucial moment and turn the much-anticipated matchup between Swiatek and Sabalenka into the blue.
Before the Women's Singles final line-up was announced, there were two reasons why Swiatek and Sabalenka met in the final.
First, when the two met at the Rome 1000 last year as world No. 1 and world No. 2, they played a thrilling classic matchup. Despite the loss of Sabalenka in the end, the outside world still believes that both men deserved the final victory, and in fact there are no losers.
Second, in terms of the latest odds to win the championship, Swiatek is ahead of Sabalenka's 1 to 1.95 and 2.25, and as for Badosa and Case, the two were offered odds of 13 to 1 and 1 to 17 respectively, which were directly ignored. It was because Swiatek rose to the top of the odds list overnight and the pair were favored to meet in the final that everyone wondered if it would be Sabalenka's odds to slap the bookmaker in the face at the end of the Grand Slam final, or if Swiatek would return to the throne with the ball in the way of winning the championship.
Sabalenka and Badosa in this contest, the relationship between the two good girlfriends is well known, before the start of the fight, many people still think that this special relationship may affect the excitement of the game, but I didn't expect that after the game started, the two completely put the sisterhood aside, and they fought to the death as soon as they came up.
Although Bardosa's performance in defeating Gauff in the semi-finals was remarkable, and it was even thought that it might upset Sabalenka and prevent her and Swiatek from meeting in the final, in terms of hard power, the Spanish beauty is still a little worse. After losing the first set 4-6, Sabalenka completely controlled the match in the second set, and did not disappoint the bookmaker's fancy victory over Bardosa, ending the battle 6-2 and reaching the final of the Australian Open for the third year in a row.
After the match, many people mentioned that Sabalenka could make new history next, and they thought that the Belarusian girl should be most grateful to her opponent Pavlyuchenkova in the quarter-finals.
Before Sabalenka and the Russian veteran did not fight, Sabalenka won two sets in the promotion process and never lost a set, but against Pavlyuchenkova, the Belarusian girl unexpectedly fell into a hard battle, not only finally lost a set, but was almost upset by the Russian veteran, and everyone was shocked into a cold sweat.
It was this hard-fought match that made everyone think that it was a wake-up call for Sabalenka, telling her that she must maintain a high level of concentration and make fewer mistakes against her best friend Badosa next, so that she may be one step closer to successfully defending her title, otherwise it will be very dangerous.
Judging from Sabalenka's performance on the court at that time, her performance was indeed better than that against Pavlyuchenkova, indicating that the Belarusian girl should have fully learned the lesson of almost capsizing in the gutter in the quarter-finals, which also laid the foundation for her final two-set victory over Badosa.
Compared to Sabalenka's two-set battle to advance to the final, the match between the most favored Swiatek and Keys was a bit brutal, and the two played from the star four in Melbourne until Friday.
The match was also far more competitive than the matchup between Sabalenka and Badosa, with Swiatek and Keys battling out a break battle from the first set, and although the Polish won the first set 7-5, it was quite thrilling to win.
The trend of the second set was even more surprising, Keys suddenly played Swiatek like a god of war possessed, and Swiatek was powerless, and directly tied the big score by sending fritters.
In the deciding set, both sides were on the verge of a tight heartstring, and although Swiatek took the lead for a while, he was defeated by Keys in one fell swoop, pushing the match into a brutal tie-break, and had the last laugh in the tie-break, shattering everyone's hopes of seeing the world No. 1 and No. 2 in the final.
Keys was able to overturn Swiatek, a result that really surprised everyone. Because since losing to his friend Stephens in the final of the US Open in 2017, Case has not reached a Grand Slam final, and it is truly amazing to put in such an incredible performance at the age of 29.
was able to enter the Grand Slam final again after eight years, and after the game, Keys was also full of emotion, directly covering his face with a towel, crying uncontrollably.
Seeing the back of the losing Swiatek backpack leaving, many people also felt extremely sorry for the Polish girl.
In addition to holding the match point in the deciding set and not winning it, Case's performance in the tie-break was actually not stable, always making Swiatek the first to hold the advantage, but unfortunately the Polish girls did not grasp the opportunity given to them by their opponents, but let Keys slowly occupy the commanding heights from passivity, and finally got the match point, and successfully cashed in, and at the end of the Australian Open, the last big upset in the women's singles field broke out.
For Sabalenka vs. Keys in the final, many people think that it must have a better chance of winning than facing Swiatek, and after solving the crisis of the world's No. 1 change of ownership, the Belarusian girl who came on the court with a more relaxed mentality is obviously more terrifying. Some people have even said in advance that the time for the Australian Open women's singles to win three consecutive championships is coming, reminding everyone to prepare in advance, and then send Sabalenka a billion applause, congratulating the Belarusian girl for equaling the record of three consecutive championships set by Hingis at the Australian Open at the end of the last century, and becoming the first Australian Open women's singles player in the new century!(Source: Tennis House Author: Starry Sky of Moon River)