Nine years after her WTA Finals debut, Madison Keys returns to the year-end tournament as a Grand Slam champion, and she faces 2023 winner Iga Swiatek on Saturday.

The opening match of this year's event in Riyadh features two Grand Slam winners in Group Serena Williams, who will meet for the eighth time on the WTA Tour.

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You may question Keys’s motivation after she secured her first Grand Slam victory at the start of the year, eight years after losing to fellow American Sloane Stephens in the 2017 US Open final.

However, what cannot be denied is that the American woman unquestionably deserved her success Down Under, where she defeated three former Slam champions — Elena Rybakina, Swiatek and Aryna Sabalenka — on her way to claiming the season’s first Major .

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