Sensational: Kenin wins the Australian Open

The 21-year-old American beat Spaniard Garbiñe Muguruza 4:6, 6:2, 6:2 in the underdog final in Melbourne on Saturday. After 2:03 hours, Kenin completed her greatest success in her first final at one of the four most important tournaments. She had never made it past a Grand Slam round of XNUMX before.

The winner will receive prize money of 4,12 million Australian dollars (around 2,5 million euros), the loser will receive half. In the world rankings, Kenin is expected to move into the top ten on Monday as the new number seven and replace Serena Williams as the best American. When Muguruza double-faulted on the second match point, Kenin, overwhelmed, dropped her racket. The defeated Spaniard missed her third Grand Slam victory after the French Open in 2016 and Wimbledon in 2017.

The almost 15 spectators in the Rod Laver Arena saw a game that was full of back and forth and in which final debutant Kenin took advantage of her chances more consistently. With her success as an outsider, she quickly became more of a focus.

Kenin was previously in the shadow of Williams and Gauff The interest among American tennis women was previously more on the tireless Serena Williams and the only 15-year-old Cori Gauff. In any case, nobody had predicted this final of the first Grand Slam tournament of the season. World number 15 (Kenin) met number 32 (Muguruza) - according to the WTA, for the first time in the professional era since 1968, no Australian Open finalist was among the top ten. Sofia Kenin won the final in three sets. © APA/afp / MANAN VATSYAYANA

Two days after her hard-fought semi-final victory over Australian world number one Ashleigh Barty, Kenin got off to a worse start and had to give up her serve to make it 1-2. The first set remained competitive, also because Muguruza missed four more break points to make it 5:2 and Kenin made it 4:4 with a double fault.

Anyone who thought that the second set would also develop in the direction of the more experienced Spaniard, who was briefly number one in the world in the best phase of her career, was disappointed. The final was quickly open again. The American played more variably and also successfully annoyed the Spaniard with interspersed stop balls. Muguruza's mistakes increased. A double fault brought Kenin 4:2 in the third set – the preliminary decision. Kenin became the youngest Australian Open winner since Maria Sharapova twelve years ago.

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Sensational: Kenin wins the Australian Open

Sofia Kenin surprisingly won the Australian Open and celebrated her first Grand Slam title.

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