Unseeded Stephens downed the great Venus Williams in three sets in the semi-finals, while Keys demolished CoCo Vandeweghe 6-1, 6-2, in just over an hour.
Neither player has taken part in a Grand Slam final before, so pressure could play a key role, with No. 15 seed Keys a slight favorite to claim glory, with Sloane Stephens maybe changing those odds within the next 24hrs.
The match is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. ET/9 p.m. BST and will be broadcast live in the United States on ESPN and in the United Kingdom on Eurosport 1.
Sloane Stephens (born March 20, 1993) is an American tennis player. She has won four singles titles on the WTA Tour since playing as a professional.
Following a successful 2012 season in which she first reached the second week of a Grand Slam, she rose to prominence upon reaching the semifinals of the 2013 Australian Open, notably defeating Serena Williams en route. Since then, she has reached a career-high singles ranking of 11 in the world and claimed her first WTA title at the 2015 Citi Open.
She has cited Venus Williams and Serena Williams as her main inspirations in tennis. She also cited her grandfather as her biggest influence growing up. She started playing tennis at the age of nine, at the Sierra Sport and Racquet Club, in Fresno, California, where her mother and stepfather introduced her to the sport. After reaching the age of 12, Stephens stepped up her training once again by joining the Nick Saviano High Performance Tennis Academy, and switching to online-based home-schooling, which allowed her to maximize her time spent on the court. She graduated from high school in 2011.
Stephens currently splits time between her home in Florida and Los Angeles, where she trains at the USTA training center at the StubHub Center in Carson, California. She stated that her favorite surface is clay when she entered the 2012 Wimbledon Championships. Her father, a Professional American Football Player, John Stephens was killed in a car accident on September 1, 2009, just before the start of the US Open. Stephens attended her father’s funeral in Louisiana, but remained entered in the US Open. Stephens’ younger brother, Shawn Farrell, plays baseball and football at Notre Dame High School in Los Angeles.
 Madison Keys is one of the youngest tennis players to win a match on the WTA Tour, at the age of 14 years and 48 days, by beating world No. 81 Alla Kudryavtseva on the clay courts at the 2009 MPS Group Championships in her home state of Florida.
Keys’ passion for tennis started at a young age while growing up in the Quad Cities. She first became interested in tennis because she liked Venus Williams’ white tennis dress, according to a video interview she conducted with World Tennis Magazine in August 2011. Her parents are Rick and Christine (attorneys), and her siblings are Sydney, Montana, and Hunter.
Keys is currently endorsed by Wilson and Nike. In 2016, she signed on to be the ambassador of FearlesslyGIRL.
Keys recently became the new ambassador for Evian and is the first American tennis player to be sponsored by them.
