The Trends in Victory from the 2025 Australian open has been clinically dissected by Sportumentary and the outcome was aptly reviewing, the critical analysis from Sportumentary is restated below
The record books have also given us a trend that the male and female champion will most inevitably emerge from the notable names mentioned. Such extraordinary feats were done by those extraordinary players that the ranking did not reflect their true strength and their current form. Also, the top seeded players within the seeding system always win the title.
The Male Champion Jannik Sinner and the female Champion Madison Keys emerged victorious, both were seeded players and played the best tennis at Melbourne especially from the baseline, these was where the similarities stopped both taught us how to win from extreme challenges they faced.
The Italian Sinner, the number one ranked player defeated the second ranked player, the German Alexander Zverev in straight sets 6-3 7-6 6-3 in a dominating display of power and ruthless control barely ceding a break point in the championship match,putting more than 3600 ranking points between them, it was a demonstration of how to overcome adversity despite being the hunted, he was the top seed, everyone wanted to defeat him, the doping issues still resurfacing with an appeal by WADA with an expected hearing before the French Open at the Australian open,Alcaraz and Djokovic were also formidable favorites but unlike Sabalenka that succumbed at the final stage, the world number one was able to withstand the pressure, he was even ill in the encounter against the Norwegian Rune in the fourth round which was similar to his turning point in Beijing in 2023 at the China Open where he overcame sickness, the opponent and went on to win the tournament, from that time until this tournament he has won 98 matches, only losing nine.he has now reached three consecutive hard court major finals and have won all three, the eight player to do so and the only Italian with that number of titles, he now has 8 big titles(2 Australian Open,1 US Open, 1 Nitto ATP,4 Masters tittles- Canadian open, Miami,Cincinnati and Shanghai)joining Nadal`s feat of 2006, of winning his maiden major and retaining it the following year, Sinner has won 19 titles overall and still counting. he is the first player in ranking history to claim ten successive straight sets win against the top ten ranked players and 21 consecutive sets against them. his strong mentality was also highlighted in his ability to save break points and his excellent record at tiebreaks with a 75% winning rate which is second best in the tour. he also helped Italy win the Davis cup back to back.as at late last year he was the only player to win both the Australian and US open plus the ATP finals and the Davis cup. He joined Federer and Djokovic in winning the hard court treble comprising of the the two majors-Australian and the US open and the Nitto ATP finals in the same calendar year, like Nadal he won the Australian open by defeating the very solid Medvedev from two sets down He was more than able to dominate the ATP tour, starting the new year with the same consistency.
American Madison Keys did it the other way, she became the lowest seeded player(19) to win the Daphne Akhurst Memorial cup prevailing in three sets over double defending champion Aryna Sabalenka 6-3 2-6 7-5. it was similar to her great compatriot Serena`win in 2005 when she defeated top seeded players, Keys went past four of them, 10th seed Collins, 6th seed Rybakina and the top two seeds Swiatek and Sabalenka. if you add her quarter final win against Svitolina former world number three and the 28th seed it will enable a deeper appreciation of what she was able to achieve in her historic maiden win. She is the second player to defeat the world number one and two players emulating Kuznetsova`s French Open win of 2009 but with the distinction of being the oldest to do so at almost 30, she is also the second oldest to win the Australian open after Na Li who was 31, it was her 46th attempt slightly lower than Bartoli`s 47th and Pennetta`s 49th appearance before winning their first major title
What we can learn from the Champions
To become a champion is never easy, either as a top dog or an underdog both has shown us how to prevail over great odds, it was never going to be easy Sinner faced a player with a reputation of being the best without winning a major, the second seed Zverev, a player that has a winning head to head positive score of four wins to two and while Keys had to unlock her potential which is always a very difficult and demanding experience to reach this level. it required her to accept that she needed help, put in the required effort to make the change, it was a soul searching journey and with a reality that winning a major or not was not a determinant in having a beautiful career and with therapy started renewing her mindset with a success filled consciousness, the internal pressure which was inhibiting her during crucial moments was replaced with a freedom to express herself and unleash her talent which at its best, was more than capable of upsetting the best, which Sabalenka admitted even when defeating her in the semi finals of the US open in 2023 which she won in three sets trailing 6-0 5-3, that experience was enough to crush any human spirit but great minds will always turn despair into a learning process translating setbacks into opportunities for improvement, with the help of her coach cum hubby Bjorn Fratangelo, a former junior french open champion, she reinvented her game, changing her service motion and her racquet to a yonex frame, marriage which offers stability, joy and goodwill usually translates positively into success, in April 11 2015 Djokovic`s rival and current coach Murray got married to Kim Sears and barely a month later defeated the king of clay Nadal at the Madrid finals to win an historic clay court masters event. Fratangelo`s marriage to Keys in November 2024 has produced a more astonishing result two months later.
Both champions have been able to maintain this indissoluble fact of life that success begins in the mind, with the right mindset anything can be achieved, both also had Nike as sponsors, a double victory for the footwear, apparel and sports equipment giant. their success is also ours if we can be willing to make the necessary sacrifices in whatever that is holding us back. both had a conviction that it is possible, it relaxed them enabling them to play with confidence and to face high level opposition and circumstance with their best performance leading to fulfillment.such champions will make for an exciting year ahead.