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Madison Keys: Parents, Husband, Net Worth and Career Explained
A US Open final at 22, a long wait, and then the 2025 Australian Open at 29. Here is who raised Madison Keys, who she married, what she has earned and how she finally won a major.
- Grand Slam
- 1Australian Open 2025, her 46th major
- WTA ranking
- No. 24singles, November 2, 2026; career high No. 5
- Prize money
- $25.3Mofficial WTA career total, November 2, 2026
- Age
- 31
- From
- Rock Island, Illinois
- Plays
- Right-handed
- Height
- 178 cm
- Turned pro
- 2009
- Career high
- No. 5
At a glance
Who is Madison Keys?
Madison Keys is an American player, born in Rock Island, Illinois, on February 17, 1995. She won the 2025 Australian Open, has 11 WTA singles titles and reached a career high of No. 5 in February 2025.
Madison Keys at a glance
- Age
- 31Born February 17, 1995, Rock Island, Illinois
- WTA ranking
- No. 24Singles, November 2, 2026
- Career high
- No. 5WTA singles
- WTA titles
- 11Singles, as of October 21, 2026
- Grand Slams
- 1Singles titles
- Prize money
- $25.3M$25,287,737, WTA career list of November 2, 2026
- Height
- 178 cmRight-handed
- Country
- USANationality on the WTA tour
Keys turned professional in 2009, at 14, and was a top-10 player by 2016, the year she also reached the Olympic semifinals in Rio. Her serve and forehand were among the heaviest on the tour, and a major title looked a matter of time. It took another nine seasons. She lost the 2017 US Open final to Sloane Stephens and then spent years as the player who beat everyone except, on the biggest days, the last opponent.
That changed in Melbourne in January 2025. She is 31 now, ranked No. 24 on the WTA list of November 2, 2026, and in June 2026 she won Eastbourne for the third time.
Parents and family
Madison Keys' parents, Rick and Christine Keys
Madison Keys' parents are Rick and Christine Keys, both attorneys, People reported in 2024. She has three sisters, Sydney, Montana and Hunter, who are named on her WTA profile.
The Keys family comes from Rock Island, a river town on the Illinois side of the Mississippi. Rick and Christine Keys are both lawyers, People reported in 2024, and her mother is also president of Kindness Wins, Madison's charity. Her WTA profile names her mother and her sisters, Sydney, Montana and Hunter.
How she started is the best-known part of the story. Her WTA profile says she was introduced to tennis by watching it on television as a little girl, and the People report adds the detail that she saw Venus Williams on TV in a dress she loved and asked her parents if she could play.
Searches for her parents' background, including their ethnicity, are common; her official biography does not discuss it, and neither does this page.
Husband and coach
Madison Keys' husband, Bjorn Fratangelo
Madison Keys is married to Bjorn Fratangelo, a former ATP player who is also her coach. They married on November 23, 2024, in Charleston, South Carolina.
Fratangelo played on the ATP Tour himself before moving into coaching, so he knows the life from the inside. The couple announced their engagement in 2023, and the ATP and WTA both reported their wedding on Saturday, November 23, 2024, in Charleston, South Carolina, a city Keys knows well from the clay-court tournament held there each April.
He is also her coach. The WTA reported at the time of the wedding that he had coached her since after Roland Garros in 2023. Two months after the wedding she won the Australian Open with him in her box.
Husband-and-coach partnerships are rare at the top of the women's game, and this one has produced the best results of her career. The coach directory lists her team beside every other top player's.
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Net worth and earnings
Madison Keys net worth and prize money
No official net worth exists. Her career prize money is $25,287,737 on the WTA list of November 2, 2026. Forbes estimated her 2025 earnings at $13.4 million, with $9 million from sponsors.
The money in four numbers
Her $25.3M in prize money is counted by the WTA; the $13.4M Forbes puts on 2025 is an estimate, and no audited net worth exists.
$25.3M
Official prize money
Career total as of November 2, 2026.
$13.4M
Forbes, 2025
Estimated earnings for the year.
$4.4M
On court
Prize money in the Forbes estimate.
$9M
Off court
Endorsements, appearances and business.
The official number is the WTA's: $25,287,737 in career prize money as of November 2, 2026, 19th on the all-time list. Her 2026 season had added $2,000,182 by mid-October.
Forbes ranked her sixth on its list of the world's highest-paid female athletes for 2025, with estimated earnings of $13.4 million, with $4.4 million on court and $9 million off it, from sponsors including Brilliant Earth, IBM and MassMutual. That is an estimate by Forbes, not a figure from Keys or her team.
Neither number is a net worth. Prize money is gross, before tax and before the cost of a full team on the road, and nobody outside her family knows her investments or spending. So this page gives the two published figures and no invented third one; the richest tennis players tracker lists her beside the other top earners on the same basis.
The 2025 Australian Open
How Madison Keys won the 2025 Australian Open
Keys saved a match point against Iga Swiatek in the semifinal, winning 5-7, 6-1, 7-6(8), and then beat world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka 6-3, 2-6, 7-5 in the final, at 29 and in her 46th major.
| Round | Opponent | Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semifinal | Iga Swiatek | 5-7 | 6-1 | 7-6(8) |
| Final | Aryna Sabalenka | 6-3 | 2-6 | 7-5 |
Keys arrived in Melbourne with a title already in hand from Adelaide the week before. The semifinal against Iga Swiatek was the match of the tournament, as Swiatek served for it at 6-5 in the third set and held a match point, and Keys saved it and won the deciding tiebreak 10-8, as the USTA reported that night.
Two days later, on January 25, 2025, she faced Aryna Sabalenka, the two-time defending champion, on Rod Laver Arena. Keys took the first set 6-3, lost the second 6-2 and broke late in the third to win 7-5. It was her first major title at 29, in her 46th Grand Slam appearance; NBC noted that only two women had needed more attempts to win a first major. A month later she rose to No. 5 for the first time.
The Australian Open guide has the dates and prize money for the next edition, and the Sabalenka and Swiatek profiles tell the story from the other side of the net.
Grand Slams and titles
Madison Keys' Grand Slam record and titles
Keys has 11 WTA singles titles and one Grand Slam, the 2025 Australian Open. Her best results at the other majors are a US Open final (2017), a Roland Garros semifinal (2018) and a Wimbledon quarterfinal (2023).
Keys at the four majors
Singles: best result and the year it came, from her WTA profile
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Australian Open
1title
2025
Best result: Champion
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Roland Garros
Semifinal
2018
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Wimbledon
Quarterfinal
2023
-
US Open
Runner-up
2017
Every Grand Slam title, year by year
One marker per major won, in the tournament's colour.
- 2025Australian Open
Her titles trace a long career: Eastbourne in 2014, Birmingham in 2016, Stanford in 2017, Charleston and Cincinnati in 2019, Adelaide in 2022, Eastbourne in 2023, Strasbourg in 2024, Adelaide and the Australian Open in 2025, and a third Eastbourne in June 2026, where she beat Tatjana Maria 7-5, 6-3 in the final, according to the LTA.
Grass suits her more than her major record suggests. Three Eastbourne titles and a Birmingham trophy come from a big first serve that the low bounce makes even harder to return. The finals she lost tell their own story too: the 2017 US Open, Rome and Montreal in 2016, Charleston in 2015 and Brisbane in 2020, all on her WTA record.
At the 2026 majors her best moment came at Wimbledon, where she beat Amanda Anisimova in the third round, the WTA reported. At the US Open she lost in the third round to Zheng Qinwen 1-6, 7-6(3), 7-5 after serving for the match at 5-1 in the deciding set, NBC reported.
2026 season in numbers as of October 19, 2026
- Titles
- 1Eastbourne
- Prize money
- $2.0MSeason to date, WTA
- Ranking
- No. 24WTA singles, November 2, 2026
Ranking over the years
Madison Keys' ranking, season by season
Keys has finished most seasons since 2015 inside the top 20, with a best year-end ranking of No. 7 in 2025. Her lowest point was 2021, when she ended the year at No. 56.
Keys' year-end WTA ranking
WTA singles ranking at the end of each season; the scale is logarithmic so the climb into the top 10 stays readable
The line shows how consistent she has been, and the one season that was not. She ended 2016 at No. 8 and stayed between No. 11 and No. 21 for most of the next decade. 2021 was the dip, when she finished at No. 56. The rebound started in 2022 and peaked in 2025, the first year she finished in the top 10 since 2016. On the list of November 2, 2026 she stands at No. 24. The tennis calendar shows the events left in the season, and the players hub sets her among the current top 10s of both tours.
FAQ
Madison Keys: questions and answers
Answers to the questions people search most about Madison Keys, from her family and her marriage to her prize money and her Australian Open title.
Who are Madison Keys' parents?
Her parents, Rick and Christine Keys, are both attorneys, People reported in 2024. Her mother is named on her WTA profile, and she is also president of the family's charity, Kindness Wins.
Does Madison Keys have siblings?
Yes, three sisters: Sydney, Montana and Hunter, all named on her WTA profile.
Who is Madison Keys married to?
Bjorn Fratangelo, a former American ATP player. They married on November 23, 2024, in Charleston, South Carolina, the ATP and WTA reported.
Is Madison Keys' husband her coach?
Yes. Fratangelo has coached her since after Roland Garros in 2023, and her WTA profile lists him as her coach. He was in her corner when she won the 2025 Australian Open.
What is Madison Keys' net worth?
There is no official figure. Her career prize money is $25,287,737 on the WTA list of November 2, 2026. Forbes estimated her 2025 earnings at $13.4 million, with $9 million from sponsors such as Brilliant Earth, IBM and MassMutual.
Is Madison Keys a millionaire?
On prize money alone she has earned $25.3 million before tax and expenses, according to the WTA, so yes, many times over on paper. What she keeps after tax and the costs of a touring team is not public.
How old was Madison Keys when she won the Australian Open?
She was 29. The 2025 Australian Open was her 46th Grand Slam appearance, and she won it a few weeks before her 30th birthday.
How many titles has Madison Keys won?
11 WTA singles titles, from Eastbourne in 2014 to Eastbourne again in 2026, her third title there. The biggest is the 2025 Australian Open.
What is Madison Keys' ranking?
No. 24 on the WTA singles list of November 2, 2026, with 1,921 points. Her career high is No. 5, first reached in February 2025.
Where is Madison Keys from?
She was born on February 17, 1995, in Rock Island, Illinois, and is 31. Her WTA profile says she was introduced to tennis by watching it on television as a little girl.
How tall is Madison Keys?
178 cm, about five feet ten, according to the WTA.