{"id":262595,"date":"2025-10-31T09:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T09:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/262595\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T09:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T09:37:10","slug":"madison-keys-brings-up-comments-shes-heard-from-serena-williams-as-she-assesses-her-own-2025-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/262595\/","title":{"rendered":"Madison Keys brings up comments she’s heard from Serena Williams as she assesses her own 2025 season"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Madison Keys is set to feature at the WTA Finals for just the second time in her career this weekend. <\/p>\n

With her qualification this year, Keys<\/a> is the player with the biggest gap between her first two appearances at the year-end competition, with her first time coming in 2016.<\/p>\n

The American has enjoyed another impressive year on the WTA<\/a> Tour, during which she clinched a maiden Grand Slam title at the Australian Open. <\/p>\n

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After emerging victorious at the Adelaide International, Keys put together a remarkable campaign in Melbourne, beating defending champion Aryna Sabalenka<\/a> in the final to hold the trophy aloft. <\/p>\n

Though she has not been able to add to her title tally since then, the 30-year-old has made deep runs at a number of big tournaments, including Indian Wells and Queen\u2019s, which saw her collect enough points to punch her ticket to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the home of this year\u2019s WTA Finals<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Madison Keys reflects on her 2025 season ahead of the WTA Finals<\/p>\n

In an interview ahead of the WTA Finals, Keys was asked if she was satisfied with her 2025 season. <\/p>\n

The Australian Open champion responded: \u201c2025 has been arguably the best year of my career. I\u2019ve had a lot of amazing tournaments, and winning a Grand Slam is obviously at the top of my list.<\/p>\n

\u201cDoing it later in my career has been something that I\u2019m incredibly proud of, but again, there\u2019s just that tennis player inside of me that wants a little bit more.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the Open Era, only Francesca Schiavone and Flavia Pennetta won their first major title older than Keys. <\/p>\n

Madison Keys: Australian Open 2025 \u2013 29 years, 343 daysFrancesca Schiavone: Roland Garros 2010 \u2013 29 years, 346 daysFlavia Pennetta: US Open 2015 \u2013 33 years, 199 days<\/p>\n

She continued: \u201cAm I fully satisfied? I don\u2019t know if any of us ever will be, which is interesting because you hear people like Serena [Williams] or Novak [Djokovic] speak, and they always wanted more.<\/p>\n

Novak Djokovic<\/a> and Serena Williams<\/a>, widely considered the greatest male and female tennis players of all time, have amassed 24 and 23 Grand Slam titles, respectively, with the Serb still active and searching for more. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou look at their careers and think, you did everything. How could you possibly want more? So I think it\u2019s just ingrained in all of us to really not be fully satisfied.\u201d<\/p>\n

Madison Keys\u2019 last campaign at the WTA Finals<\/p>\n

Keys\u2019 last appearance at the WTA Finals came at the end of the 2016 season, during which she had made back-to-back WTA 1000 finals. <\/p>\n

She reached the championship match at the Italian Open and the Canadian Open, but lost to Williams and Simona Halep<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Halep ended up being Keys\u2019 first opponent at the WTA Finals, held in Singapore that year, and the Romanian handed her a straight set defeat in the group stage.<\/p>\n

Then, Keys claimed her only win of the tournament against Dominika Cibulkova, before losing to Angelique Kerber in her third and final round-robin matchup, and ultimately exiting the event. <\/p>\n

RoundOpponent (Seed)ResultScoreGroup StageSimona Halep (3)Loss2-6, 4-6Group StageDominika Cibulkova (7)Win6-1, 6-4Group StageAngelique Kerber (1)Loss3-6, 3-6Madison Keys\u2019 2016 WTA Finals campaign<\/p>\n

This year, Keys has been grouped with Iga Swiatek<\/a>, Amanda Anisimova<\/a> and Elena Rybakina<\/a>. <\/p>\n

She will take on Swiatek first, in what will mark an eighth career meeting between the two stars. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow us on Google Discover Madison Keys is set to feature at the WTA Finals for just the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[12764,99,428,654],"class_list":{"0":"post-262595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-madison-keys","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-tennis","11":"tag-wta"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}