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Rybakina Could Become the First Moscow-Born Woman to Win in New York
Aryna Sabalenka vs. Elena Rybakina — US Open 2026 Final Preview The 2026 US Open women’s final brings together two of the tour’s biggest hard-court forces, but they arrive with very different stories attached to them. For Aryna Sabalenka, this is a chance to keep her New York dynasty going. She has now reached her…
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Two Days After the US Open Ended in 2001, New York Changed Forever
On Sunday, September 9, 2001, Lleyton Hewitt stood inside Arthur Ashe Stadium with the US Open trophy in his hands. Two days later, the world outside the stadium was unrecognizable. The September 11 attacks did not stop the 2001 US Open. They came almost immediately after it. In Remembrance Remembering the Victims of September 11…
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Elena Rybakina Slows the Key Game Down, Then Shuts Coco Gauff Out of the US Open Final
Elena Rybakina vs. Coco Gauff — US Open 2026 Semifinal Match Report For a long time, Elena Rybakina could not quite solve Coco Gauff’s serve. So she did something unexpected. She slowed down. Gauff had come out firing, particularly behind a second serve whose placement repeatedly wrong-footed the new World No. 1. She took the…
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Once Sabalenka Stepped It Up Against Pegula, There Was No Looking Back
Aryna Sabalenka vs. Jessica Pegula — US Open 2026 Semifinal Match Report For nearly an entire set, Jessica Pegula gave Aryna Sabalenka very little to work with. Then Sabalenka stepped up the pressure. The first break of the match arrived at the last possible moment, with Pegula serving at 5-6. Sabalenka took the set 7-5,…
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Elena Rybakina and Coco Gauff Meet With a Nearly Blank Rivalry and a US Open Final at Stake
Elena Rybakina vs. Coco Gauff — US Open 2026 Semifinal Preview For two players who have spent years near the top of women’s tennis, Elena Rybakina and Coco Gauff have remarkably little history together. They have completed only two matches. Gauff won the first. Rybakina won the latest. A scheduled meeting in Dubai in 2023…
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Aryna Sabalenka and Jessica Pegula Meet Again With the No. 1 Race Gone but the US Open Prize Bigger Than Ever
Aryna Sabalenka vs. Jessica Pegula — US Open 2026 Semifinal Preview Aryna Sabalenka and Jessica Pegula know this stage, and they know each other. The difference tonight is that one subplot has disappeared. After Elena Rybakina’s victory over Qinwen Zheng, Sabalenka can no longer retain the World No. 1 ranking, while Pegula can no longer…
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Mirra Andreeva’s Tiebreak Tricks Backfire as Coco Gauff Books Another US Open Semifinal
Mirra Andreeva vs. Coco Gauff — US Open 2026 Quarterfinal Match Report For most of two sets, Mirra Andreeva had found ways to make Coco Gauff uncomfortable. Then she found a tactic that looked clever until Gauff refused to cooperate. Andreeva had taken the opening set 6-2 and carried the second all the way into…
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No Individual Training Until 17, Ten Years Later Elena Rybakina Is World No. 1
Elena Rybakina vs. Qinwen Zheng — US Open 2026 Quarterfinal Match Report. Elena Rybakina spent much of her junior career sharing courts rather than receiving individual training. She did not begin working seriously one-on-one until around the age of 17. On Wednesday in New York, that unconventional route reached the top of women’s tennis. Rybakina…
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US Open 2026 No. 1 Race: Rybakina One Win From the Top as Zheng Holds the Key
Cincinnati is over, Coco Gauff has the trophy, and the battle for the WTA World No. 1 ranking has now reached its decisive stage at the US Open. Aryna Sabalenka remains No. 1 for the moment, but Elena Rybakina is only one victory away from replacing her. The equation could hardly be simpler. If Rybakina…
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Sabalenka Learns From Australia as Her US Open Three-Peat Bid Survives Noskova
Aryna Sabalenka — US Open 2026 Quarterfinal Press Conference After Defeating Linda Noskova For a few minutes in the third set, Aryna Sabalenka had already begun imagining the end. Linda Noskova was serving better, striking freely and applying enough pressure to make the defending champion feel that her US Open title defence might finally have…
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Jessica Pegula Finds Her Forehand Through Emma Navarro’s Storm to Reach the US Open Semifinals
Jessica Pegula vs. Emma Navarro — US Open 2026 Quarterfinal Match Report Emma Navarro arrived in this quarterfinal carrying serious form and, for more than a set, she looked capable of taking the whole evening with her. She made the sharper start, broke quickly, absorbed the noise of the occasion and repeatedly forced Jessica Pegula…
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Aryna Sabalenka Fights Off Linda Noskova’s Charge by Going for Broke in the Decider
Aryna Sabalenka vs. Linda Noskova — US Open 2026 Quarterfinal Match Report For a few games in the deciding set, Aryna Sabalenka hit the panic button. Then, almost without warning, she stopped pressing it. Linda Noskova had pushed the world No. 1 to the edge, turned a set down into a genuine quarterfinal charge and…
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Coco Gauff Shows the Present, Iva Jovic the Future in High-Quality US Open Battle
Coco Gauff vs. Iva Jovic — US Open 2026 Fourth-Round Match Report American tennis had reasons to feel good on both sides of the net. Coco Gauff produced one of her most complete performances of this US Open to beat Iva Jovic 6-1, 6-4 and reach the quarterfinals. The score, particularly in the opening set,…
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Elena Rybakina Leaves Naomi Osaka With Nowhere to Go and Moves One Win From World No. 1
Naomi Osaka vs. Elena Rybakina — US Open 2026 Fourth-Round Match Report Naomi Osaka was present for this one. For long stretches, that was about as much influence as Elena Rybakina allowed her. Rybakina produced one of her most complete performances of the tournament to win 6-1, 6-4, serving superbly, striking her backhand with its…
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Mirra Andreeva Finally Breaks Through at the US Open as Potapova’s Injury Brings a Sad Finish
Mirra Andreeva vs. Anastasia Potapova — US Open 2026 Fourth-Round Match Report Mirra Andreeva has finally pushed beyond the barrier that had stopped her in New York every year. But the moment came with an uncomfortable ending. Andreeva recovered from a set down to beat Anastasia Potapova 5-7, 6-4, 6-3, reaching her first US Open…
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Queen Zheng Is Back: Again From 0-5 Down to the US Open Quarterfinals as Swiatek Unravels
Iga Swiatek vs. Qinwen Zheng — US Open 2026 Fourth-Round Match Report Qinwen Zheng has now done it twice at this US Open. Against Madison Keys, she came back from 0-5 in the deciding set. Against Iga Swiatek, she did it again from 0-5 in the opening set. This time there was no third set…
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Emma Navarro Wins the Backhand Battle Hands Down to Beat Anna Kalinskaya at the US Open
Emma Navarro vs. Anna Kalinskaya — US Open 2026 Fourth-Round Match Report Emma Navarro and Anna Kalinskaya spent much of this match testing each other from the backhand side. Navarro won that battle with flying colors. The American was cleaner, more patient and far less wasteful in the exchanges that gradually shaped a 6-4, 6-2…
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Jessica Pegula Keeps Her US Open Mileage Low With Straight-Set Win Over Sorana Cirstea
Jessica Pegula vs. Sorana Cirstea — US Open 2026 Fourth-Round Match Report Jessica Pegula has reached the US Open quarterfinals without spending much unnecessary time getting there. Sorana Cirstea made this one considerably less tidy than the score suggests, particularly once both women began attacking each other’s service games, but Pegula kept finding the better…
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Linda Noskova Solves the Kostyuk Cube to Turn Match-Point Agony Into US Open Victory
Linda Noskova vs. Marta Kostyuk — US Open 2026 Fourth-Round Match Report Linda Noskova had already discovered how difficult Marta Kostyuk was to finish. At 5-4 in the second set, match points came and went on Noskova’s serve. Minutes later, the set was gone. At 5-4 in the decider, the same danger returned. This time…
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Aryna Sabalenka Survives an Awkward US Open Afternoon as Taylor Townsend Lets Her Chance Slip
Aryna Sabalenka vs. Taylor Townsend — US Open 2026 Fourth-Round Match Report Aryna Sabalenka never really found her best tennis. Taylor Townsend never made her pay for it. That was the strange rhythm of a 6-4, 6-3 fourth-round match in which the two players rarely played well at the same time. When one settled, the…
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Madison Keys Admits Fear Took Over in Painful US Open Defeat
Madison Keys — US Open 2026 Third-Round Press Conference After Losing to Qinwen Zheng Madison Keys had already supplied the brutal visual evidence. A 5-0 lead in the deciding set had disappeared against Qinwen Zheng. What followed in the press room was more revealing than any tactical explanation could have been. “I just got really…
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Coco Gauff Finds Her Flow Against Cristina Bucsa, Then Admits She Expects to Be Upset Every Match
Coco Gauff — US Open 2026 Third-Round Press Conference After Defeating Cristina Bucsa Coco Gauff found the feeling she had been waiting for at 4-all. Not confidence exactly. Not momentum in the ordinary sense either. Something harder to manufacture. A flow state. After beating Cristina Bucsa in the third round of the US Open, Gauff…
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Iva Jovic Takes Over the Road to the US Open Final After a Three-Set Hitfest With Alexandra Eala
Iva Jovic vs. Alexandra Eala — US Open 2026 Third-Round Match Report The Road to the US Open Final has changed hands. Alexandra Eala carried it through the first two rounds. Iva Jovic now takes over after beating her doubles partner and friend 7-5, 3-6, 7-5 in a match that never once felt like an…
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US Open 2026 WTA Results, Draw, Scores & Schedule
Last updated on September 13, following the US Open women’s singles final between Aryna Sabalenka and Elena Rybakina. The US Open 2026 WTA tournament centre provides women’s live scores, match results, draws, schedules and daily updates from New York. Follow every round from qualifying to the final as players compete on the outdoor hard courts…
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From Qualifier to Olympic Champion in Seven Games: Qinwen Zheng Stuns Madison Keys
Madison Keys vs. Qinwen Zheng — US Open 2026 Third-Round Match Report For five games in the deciding set, Madison Keys looked untouchable. Then she looked unable to stop anything. Keys had already blown through the opening set 6-1, and when she raced to 5-0 in the third, this match appeared finished in all but…
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Maya Joint Holds Her Nerve as Williams Sisters Let 5-0 Lead Slip at US Open
Serena Williams and Venus Williams vs. Maya Joint and Hao-ching Chan — US Open 2026 Doubles Maya Joint has already spent much of 2026 proving that famous names do not particularly bother her. She did it again on Friday night. The 20-year-old Australian and Taiwan’s Hao-ching Chan recovered from 5-0 down in the deciding 10-point…
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Emma Navarro Finally Gives the US Open Its First Big Upset With Straight-Sets Win Over Muchova
Emma Navarro vs. Karolina Muchova — US Open 2026 Third-Round Match Report For two rounds, the US Open women’s draw had stubbornly refused to fall apart. The leading seeds kept winning. The Top 8 all reached the third round. Genuine shocks were remarkably difficult to find. Then Emma Navarro beat world No. 7 Karolina Muchova…
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Taylor Townsend Saves Seven Set Points, Loses the Set Anyway, Then Knocks Out Diana Shnaider
Taylor Townsend vs. Diana Shnaider — US Open 2026 Third-Round Match Report Taylor Townsend survived seven set points in one game. Then she lost the set anyway. What followed said considerably more about her night. After watching a 5-3 second-set lead disappear and eventually losing a tense tiebreak, Townsend reset almost immediately and played a…
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At 36, Sorana Cirstea Beats Jasmine Paolini and Pushes Her Career High Even Higher
Jasmine Paolini vs. Sorana Cirstea — US Open 2026 Third-Round Match Report Sorana Cirstea is 36 years old and virtually up to No. 15 in the world. That may be the most remarkable part of her US Open. The Romanian continued an extraordinary late-career rise by beating No. 19 seed Jasmine Paolini 6-3, 6-3, reaching…
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Alexandra Eala Moves the Road Forward With a Clean Win Over Oliynykova at the US Open
Oleksandra Oliynykova vs. Alexandra Eala — US Open 2026 Second-Round Match Report The Road to the US Open Final has a clear rule. We begin with one first-round match, then follow the winner into her next match, and then do the same again until one player reaches the championship match in New York. Alexandra Eala…