Madison Keys v Aryna Sabalenka LIVE: Australian Open score and latest updates from women’s final

KEYS HOLDS! *Aryna Sabalenka 3-6 6-2 0-1 Madison Keys

A love-hold with an ace? That’s about as good as it could have been for Keys, who needs her serve to return to the levels she found in the first set. She needed that.

Aryna Sabalenka 3-6 6-2 0-0 Madison Keys*

No delay as the third set gets underway. Keys will serve first but this feels like a must-hold game for the American given the direction of the second set.

SABALENKA WINS SECOND SET! Aryna Sabalenka 3-6 6-2 Madison Keys*

Sabalenka improved in almost every category in the second set, particulary on serve as she found 83% serving and cut out the double faults. The winners started to flow, too, out-hitting Keys with 13 winners to eight and making fewer unforced errors.

Keys struggled on serve and won just 38% of second serve points, as Sabalenka broke twice.

Onto a deciding set we go! Who will find their best level in the third?

SABALENKA WINS SECOND SET! Aryna Sabalenka 3-6 6-2 Madison Keys*

Really clever from Sabalenka. She has switched up her game nicely and the drop shot is working wonders, and she floats the deft slice just beyond the net.

30-0 and two points away from the set. Keys this time reads the short ball but can’t clear the net on the forehand!

Three set points for Sabalenka to take us into a deciding set! But this won’t be easy for the World No 1, a double fault brings Keys into it at 40-30.

But Keys can’t keep her forehand in play as she looks for the big winner! Sabalenka pumps her first again and levels the match!

KEYS HOLDS! *Aryna Sabalenka 3-6 5-2 Madison Keys

Keys was ahead 5-1 in the first set but Sabalenka found a way to come back into it, which helped her start the second so well.

Now the American hopes to do the same ahead of a possible third set, but the level of her serving has fallen and Sabalenka senses a chance.

Keys, though, finds a tricky second serve that Sabalenka can’t attack. Great defence from Sabalenka, but she can’t take over in the point and fires long.

Sabalenka misses on the return and Keys holds. The World No 1 will serve for the third set next.

SABALENKA HOLDS! Aryna Sabalenka 3-6 5-1 Madison Keys*

Another drop shot from Sabalenka! This time to save another break point. Keys then nets on two consecutive returns and Sabalenka pumps her fist as she earns an important hold.

Five games in a row for Sabalenka.

*Aryna Sabalenka 3-6 4-1 Madison Keys

What a shot from Keys! Terrific backhand from the American, and possibly the biggest winner of the final so far, and it brings up two break points.

Sabalenka responds with the ace down the middle. ACE from Sabalenka. Her improving serving has really helped turned this final around her way.

Now she works the serve into the drop shot, which Keys is unable to reach. Keys is not down yet and lands her second winner of the game with a stunning forehand down the line.

SABALENKA BREAKS! *Aryna Sabalenka 3-6 4-1 Madison Keys

Sabalenka’s growing confidence is on display as she floats a drop shot and skips to move 15-30 up. Sabalenka ramps up the pressure on the backhand side and Keys nets!

Another two break points on the Keys serve… Sabalenka finds the backhand winner crosscourt as Keys came into the net!

Sabalenka has roared back and this final has turned!

SABALENKA HOLDS! Aryna Sabalenka 3-6 3-1 Madison Keys*

The Sabalenka serve is starting to stand up to the pressure Keys has been applying on the returns. The World No 1 rallies from 0-30 down to hold, as Keys nets on the backhand out wide.

SABALENKA BREAKS! *Aryna Sabalenka 3-6 2-1 Madison Keys

Sabalenka jumps on the Keys second serve as the ball sits up perfectly for the forehand strike. A fifth break point of this set, and Sabalenka takes it! She attacks on the backhand this time, and takes the break at last. The pressure eventually tells against the Keys serve.

The defending champion roars back into this.