Factbox-Tennis-List of U.S. Open women's singles champions


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  • Sunday, 11 Sep 2022

Sep 10, 2022; Flushing, NY, USA; Iga Swiatek (POL) celebrates with the championship trophy after her match against Ons Jabeur (TUN) (not pictured) in the women's singles final on day thirteen of the 2022 U.S. Open tennis tournament at USTA Billie Jean King Tennis Center. Mandatory Credit: Robert Deutsch-USA TODAY Sports

(Reuters) - List of U.S. Open women's singles champions since the tournament began in 1887:

2023 - Coco Gauff (U.S.) beat Aryna Sabalenka (Belarus) 2-6 6-3 6-2

2022 - Iga Swiatek (Poland) beat Ons Jabeur (Tunisia) 6-2 7-6(5)

2021 - Emma Raducanu (Britain) beat Leylah Fernandez (Canada) 6-4 6-3

2020 - Naomi Osaka (Japan) beat Victoria Azarenka (Belarus) 1-6 6-3 6-3

2019 - Bianca Andreescu (Canada) beat Serena Williams (U.S.) 6-3 7-5

2018 - Osaka beat Serena Williams 6-2 6-4

2017 - Sloane Stephens (U.S.) beat Madison Keys (U.S.) 6-3 6-0

2016 - Angelique Kerber (Germany) beat Karolina Pliskova (Czech Republic) 6-3 4-6 6-4

2015 - Flavia Pennetta (Italy) beat Roberta Vinci (Italy) 7-6(4) 6-2

2014 - Serena Williams beat Caroline Wozniacki (Denmark) 6-3 6-3

2013 - Serena Williams beat Azarenka 7-5 6-7(6) 6-1

2012 - Serena Williams beat Azarenka 6-2 2-6 7-5

2011 - Samantha Stosur (Australia) beat Serena Williams 6-2 6-3

2010 - Kim Clijsters (Belgium) beat Vera Zvonareva (Russia) 6-2 6-1

2009 - Clijsters beat Wozniacki 7-5 6-3

2008 - Serena Williams beat Jelena Jankovic (Serbia) 6-4 7-5

2007 - Justine Henin (Belgium) beat Svetlana Kuznetsova (Russia) 6-1 6-3

2006 - Maria Sharapova (Russia) beat Henin 6-4 6-4

2005 - Clijsters beat Mary Pierce (France) 6-3 6-1

2004 - Kuznetsova beat Elena Dementieva (Russia) 6-3 7-5

2003 - Henin beat Clijsters 7-5 6-1

2002 - Serena Williams beat Venus Williams (U.S.) 6-4 6-3

2001 - Venus Williams beat Serena Williams 6-2 6-4

2000 - Venus Williams beat Lindsay Davenport (U.S.) 6-4 7-5

1999 - Serena Williams beat Martina Hingis (Switzerland) 6-3 7-6

1998 - Davenport beat Hingis 6-3 7-5

1997 - Hingis beat Venus Williams 6-0 6-4

1996 - Steffi Graf (Germany) beat Monica Seles (U.S.) 7-5 6-4

1995 - Graf beat Seles 7-6 0-6 6-3

1994 - Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario (Spain) beat Graf 1-6 7-6 6-4

1993 - Graf beat Helena Sukova (Czech Republic) 6-3 6-3

1992 - Seles beat Sanchez-Vicario 6-3 6-3

1991 - Seles beat Martina Navratilova (U.S.) 7-6 6-1

1990 - Gabriela Sabatini (Argentina) beat Graf 6-2 7-6

1989 - Graf beat Navratilova 3-6 7-5 6-1

1988 - Graf beat Sabatini 6-3 3-6 6-1

1987 - Navratilova beat Graf 7-6 6-1

1986 - Navratilova beat Sukova 6-3 6-2

1985 - Hana Mandlikova (Czechoslovakia) beat Navratilova 7-6 1-6 7-6

1984 - Navratilova beat Chris Evert (U.S.) 4-6 6-4 6-4

1983 - Navratilova beat Evert 6-1 6-3

1982 - Evert beat Mandlikova 6-3 6-1

1981 - Tracy Austin (U.S.) beat Navratilova 1-6 7-6 7-6

1980 - Evert beat Mandlikova 5-7 6-1 6-1

1979 - Austin beat Evert 6-4 6-3

1978 - Evert beat Pam Shriver (U.S.) 7-5 6-4

1977 - Evert beat Wendy Turnbull (Australia) 7-6 6-2

1976 - Evert beat Evonne Goolagong (Australia) 6-3 6-0

1975 - Evert beat Goolagong 5-7 6-4 6-2

1974 - Billie Jean King (U.S.) beat Goolagong 3-6 6-3 7-5

1973 - Margaret Court (Australia) beat Goolagong 7-6 5-7 6-2

1972 - King beat Kerry Melville (Australia) 6-3 7-5

1971 - King beat Rosemary Casals (U.S.) 6-4 7-6

1970 - Court beat Casals 6-2 2-6 6-1

1969 - Court beat Nancy Richey (U.S.) 6-2 6-2

1968 - Virginia Wade (Britain) beat King 6-4 6-4

U.S. National Championships

1967 - King beat Ann Haydon Jones (Britain) 11-9 6-4

1966 - Maria Bueno (Brazil) beat Richey 6-3 6-1

1965 - Court beat Billie Jean Moffitt (U.S.) 8-6 7-5

1964 - Bueno beat Carole Caldwell Graebner (U.S.) 6-1 6-0

1963 - Bueno beat Court 7-5 6-4

1962 - Court beat Darlene Hard (U.S.) 9-7 6-4

1961 - Hard beat Ann Haydon (Britain) 6-3 6-4

1960 - Hard beat Bueno 6-4 10-12 6-4

1959 - Bueno beat Christine Truman (Britain) 6-1 6-4

1958 - Althea Gibson (U.S.) beat Hard 3-6 6-1 6-2

1957 - Gibson beat Louise Brough (U.S.) 6-3 6-2

1956 - Shirley Fry (U.S.) beat Gibson 6-3 6-4

1955 - Doris Hart (U.S.) beat Patricia Ward Hales (Britain) 6-4 6-2

1954 - Hart beat Brough 6-8 6-1 8-6

1953 - Maureen Connolly (U.S.) beat Hart 6-2 6-4

1952 - Connolly beat Hart 6-3 7-5

1951 - Connolly beat Fry 6-3 1-6 6-4

1950 - Margaret Osborne (U.S.) beat Hart 6-4 6-3

1949 - Osborne beat Hart 6-3 6-1

1948 - Osborne beat Brough 4-6 6-4 15-13

1947 - Brough beat Osborne 8-6 4-6 6-1

1946 - Pauline Betz (U.S.) beat Hart 11-9 6-3

1945 - Sarah Palfrey Cooke (U.S.) beat Betz 3-6 8-6 6-4

1944 - Betz beat Osborne 6-3 8-6

1943 - Betz beat Brough 6-3 5-7 6-3

1942 - Betz beat Brough 4-6 6-1 6-4

1941 - Cooke beat Betz 7-5 6-2

1940 - Alice Marble (U.S.) beat Helen Jacobs (U.S.) 6-2 6-3

1939 - Marble beat Jacobs 6-0 8-10 6-4

1938 - Marble beat Nancye Wynne Bolton (Australia) 6-0 6-3

1937 - Anita Lizana (Chile) beat Jadwiga Jedrzejowska (Poland) 6-4 6-2

1936 - Marble beat Jacobs 4-6 6-3 6-2

1935 - Jacobs beat Cooke 6-2 6-4

1934 - Jacobs beat Cooke 6-1 6-4

1933 - Jacobs beat Helen Wills (U.S.) 8-6 3-6 3-0 retired

1932 - Jacobs beat Carolin Babcock (U.S.) 6-2 6-2

1931 - Wills beat Eileen Bennett (Britain) 6-4 6-1

1930 - Betty Nuthall (Britain) beat Anna McCune Harper (U.S.) 6-1 6-4

1929 - Wills beat Phoebe Holcroft Watson (Britain) 6-4 6-2

1928 - Wills beat Jacobs 6-2 6-1

1927 - Wills beat Nuthall 6-1 6-4

1926 - Molla Mallory (U.S.) beat Elizabeth Ryan (U.S.) 4-6 6-4 9-7

1925 - Wills beat Kitty McKane Godfree (Britain) 3-6 6-0 6-2

1924 - Wills beat Mallory 6-1 6-3

1923 - Wills beat Mallory 6-2 6-1

1922 - Mallory beat Wills 6-3 6-1

1921 - Mallory beat Mary Browne (U.S.) 4-6 6-4 6-2

1920 - Mallory beat Marion Zinderstein (U.S.) 6-3 6-1

1919 - Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman (U.S.) beat Zinderstein (U.S.) 6-1 6-2

1918 - Molla Bjurstedt (Norway) beat Eleanor Goss (U.S.) 6-4 6-3

1917 - Bjurstedt beat Marion Vanderhoef (U.S.) 4-6 6-0 6-2

1916 - Bjurstedt beat Louise Hammond Raymond (U.S.) 6-0 6-1

1915 - Bjurstedt beat Wightman 4-6 6-2 6-0

1914 - Mary Browne (U.S.) beat Marie Wagner (U.S.) 6-2 1-6 6-1

1913 - Browne beat Dorothy Green (U.S.) 6-2 7-5

1912 - Browne beat Eleonora Sears (U.S.) 6-4 6-2

1911 - Wightman beat Florence Sutton (U.S.) 8-10 6-1 9-7

1910 - Wightman beat Louise Hammond Raymond (U.S.) 6-4 6-2

1909 - Wightman beat Maud Barger-Wallach (U.S.) 6-0 6-1

1908 - Barger-Wallach beat Evelyn Sears (U.S.) 6-3 1-6 6-3

1907 - Sears beat Carrie Neely (U.S.) 6-3 6-2

1906 - Helen Homans (U.S.) beat Barger-Wallach (U.S.) 6-4 6-3

1905 - Elisabeth Moore (U.S.) beat Homans 6-4 5-7 6-1

1904 - May Sutton (U.S.) beat Moore 6-1 6-2

1903 - Moore beat Marion Jones (U.S.) 7-5 8-6

1902 - Marion Jones beat Moore 6-1 1-0 retired

1901 - Moore beat Myrtle McAteer (U.S.) 6-4 3-6 7-5 2-6 6-2

1900 - McAteer beat Edith Parker (U.S.) 6-2 6-2 6-0

1899 - Marion Jones beat Maud Banks (U.S.) 6-1 6-1 7-5

1898 - Juliette Atkinson (U.S.) beat Marion Jones 6-3 5-7 6-4 2-6 7-5

1897 - Atkinson beat Moore 6-3 6-3 4-6 3-6 6-3

1896 - Moore beat Atkinson 6-4 4-6 6-2 6-2

1895 - Atkinson beat Helen Hellwig (U.S.) 6-4 6-2 6-1

1894 - Hellwig beat Aline Terry (U.S.) 7-5 3-6 6-0 3-6 6-3

1893 - Terry beat Augusta Schultz (U.S.) 6-1 6-3

1892 - Mabel Cahill* (Britain) beat Moore 5-7 6-3 6-4 4-6 6-2

1891 - Cahill beat Ellen Roosevelt (U.S.) 6-4 6-1 4-6 6-3

1890 - Roosevelt beat Bertha Townsend (U.S.) 6-2 6-2

1889 - Townsend beat Lida Voorhees (U.S.) 7-5 6-2

1888 - Townsend beat Ellen Hansell (U.S.) 6-3 6-5

1887 - Hansell beat Laura Knight (U.S.) 6-1 6-0

* Mabel Cahill from the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland

(Compiled by Pearl Josephine Nazare in Bengaluru)

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