American star Madison Keys will join the likes of Iga Swiatek, Aryna Sabalenka and Coco Gauff at the 2025 WTA Finals.
Keys, who won her maiden Grand Slam at the 2025 Australian Open, is one of the eight players who have qualified for the finals, which are taking place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Elena Rybakina clinched the final spot this week after reaching the Japan Open semi-finals, beating out Russian star Mirra Andreeva.
Keys is part of a strong American contingent currently present on the WTA Tour, with four players from this group set to participate in Riyadh: Coco Gauff, Amanda Anisimova, Jessica Pegula and Madison Keys.
Keys will hope to improve upon her 2016 performance when she takes to the court in Saudi Arabia.
Madison Keys holds the record for the longest gap between a player’s first two WTA Finals appearances
As per OptaAce, Madison Keys now holds the record for the largest gap between a player’s first two appearances at the WTA Finals.
Keys first qualified for the finals in 2016 and will do so for a second time in 2025.
The previous holder of the record was Amy Frazier – an American player who first qualified for the Finals in 1992.
Frazier qualified for a second time eight years later, in 2000.
As it stands, Keys is set to qualify for the 2025 WTA Finals in the same seeded position as she did in 2016.
With 4,395 WTA points to her name, Keys is currently set to qualify for the 2025 WTA Finals as the sixth seed.
Madison Keys’ 2016 WTA Finals
Madison Keys, Dominika Cibulkova and Karolina Pliskova all made their WTA Finals debuts in 2016.
Keys was placed in a round robin group alongside Cibulkova, Simona Halep and Angelique Kerber.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, top seed Kerber won all three of her round robin matches, while Cibulkova, Keys and Halep all registered 1-2 records.
Unfortunately for Keys, despite defeating Cibulkova, she missed out on a semi-final place because Cibulkova had won one more set during the group stage
Remarkably, after scraping through the group, Cibulkova won the entire tournament, defeating Svetlana Kuznetsova in the semi-final and Angelique Kerber in the final.
