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All eyes on New York! Follow the latest WTA US Open news with breaking updates, standout stories, and behind-the-scenes buzz from the final Grand Slam of the year. From surprise upsets to title runs, we’ve got every headline that matters — all from a fan’s point of view.
US Open Women’s Champions
Champion: Aryna Sabalenka — Read the 2025 Final Match Report
Aryna Sabalenka def. Amanda Anisimova 6–3, 7–6(3)
2025 US OPEN Women’s Results (All) Including Qualifiers – Detailed Stats From Quarterfinals to Final
US Open Women’s Singles Champions & Finalists: Full Open Era Winners List (since 1968)
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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…
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Where Are the Upsets? US Open 2026 Sends Almost All of Its Biggest Names Into Round Three
The first two rounds of a Grand Slam are supposed to thin the field. At this US Open, they have barely touched the top of it. Aryna Sabalenka, Elena Rybakina, Jessica Pegula, Coco Gauff, Mirra Andreeva, Linda Noskova, Karolina Muchova and Iga Swiatek are all safely into the third round. So are Elina Svitolina, Amanda…
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Coco Gauff Fights Off a Cold and Paula Badosa in a Nervy Arthur Ashe Night
Paula Badosa vs. Coco Gauff — US Open 2026 Second-Round Match Report Coco Gauff had two problems to deal with inside a lively Arthur Ashe Stadium. One was Paula Badosa. The other could be heard as soon as Gauff began speaking after the match. The American sounded distinctly congested during her on-court interview, but avoiding…
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Five Match Points Vanish in the Pit as Madison Keys Escapes Anna Bondar
Madison Keys vs. Anna Bondar — US Open 2026 Second-Round Match Report Five match points. Anna Bondar had five of them. She had spent three sets dragging Madison Keys into exactly the kind of match the American would rather avoid, changing height, pace and rhythm with drop shots, moonballs, awkward forehands and anything else that…
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Taylor Townsend Adds to Australia’s US Open Misery With Preston Rout
Taylor Townsend vs. Taylah Preston — US Open 2026 Second-Round Match Report Australia arrived in New York with six women in the main draw. Now there are none. Taylor Townsend completed the wipeout by dismantling Taylah Preston 6-1, 6-1, ending the 20-year-old wildcard’s encouraging run and closing the door on an Australian contingent that had…
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Jessica Pegula Is in a Hurry at the US Open, and Sofia Kenin Cannot Slow Her Down
Jessica Pegula vs. Sofia Kenin — US Open 2026 Second-Round Match Report Jessica Pegula has played two matches at this US Open and has yet to leave much behind for anyone else. Elena-Gabriela Ruse managed five games in the first round. Sofia Kenin managed four in the second. This one was even quicker. Pegula swept…
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Marta Kostyuk Stops Sloane Stephens Again as Her US Open Revival Ends in Round Two
Marta Kostyuk vs. Sloane Stephens — US Open 2026 Second-Round Match Report Sloane Stephens has spent much of 2026 climbing back toward a part of the rankings where her name looks more familiar. Marta Kostyuk has now stopped her twice in three weeks. The No. 11 seed followed her 7-5, 7-5 victory over Stephens in…
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Qualifying Was Only the First Test: Five US Open Qualifiers Are Already Through, Ten Are Gone
Three victories got them into the US Open. For most of the qualifiers, the fourth proved considerably harder. Of the 16 women who fought their way through qualifying, five have already won again in the main draw, 10 have been eliminated, and Francesca Jones is still trying to become the sixth after taking the opening…
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Alexandra Eala Packs Louis Armstrong and Starts RallyHer’s Road to the US Open Final 2026
Mary Stoiana vs. Alexandra Eala — US Open 2026 First-Round Match Report Louis Armstrong Stadium was packed for Alexandra Eala. We are beginning to get used to writing that. The No. 17 seed rewarded another sizeable crowd with a performance that became more commanding as the match progressed, beating American qualifier Mary Stoiana 6-1, 6-2…
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Coco Gauff Gives Turkey’s Rising Star One Opening, Then Closes the Door at the US Open
Zeynep Sonmez vs. Coco Gauff — US Open 2026 First-Round Match Report Zeynep Sonmez could hardly have been handed a less forgiving welcome to the US Open. The Turkish No. 1 drew Cincinnati champion Coco Gauff, a player arriving in New York with a title behind her and considerably larger ambitions ahead. Yet for a…
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Yulia Putintseva Turns the Match Twice and Sends Belinda Bencic Out of the US Open
Yulia Putintseva vs. Belinda Bencic — US Open 2026 First-Round Match Report Belinda Bencic was a set and two games up, and still could not get past Yulia Putintseva. That feels entirely appropriate for Putintseva. The 31-year-old Kazakh, one of the tour’s most expressive and unpredictable competitors, turned a match that repeatedly appeared to be…
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Elena Rybakina Gets the Win, but Thea Frodin Gives New York a Name to Remember
Thea Frodin vs. Elena Rybakina — US Open 2026 First-Round Match Report Elena Rybakina was supposed to be the story. Coming off the injury that ended her Cincinnati run, the virtual World No. 1 needed to show that the ankle would withstand a Grand Slam match. She did exactly that, beating 17-year-old American wildcard Thea…
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Linda Noskova Flips a 2-5 Hole Into a Landslide at the US Open
Katie Volynets vs. Linda Noskova — US Open 2026 First-Round Match Report For seven games, Katie Volynets had the Wimbledon champion exactly where she wanted her. Then the match disappeared. Volynets led 5-2 in the opening set before Linda Noskova reeled off five consecutive games to steal it 7-5. The Czech then won the first…
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Seven Set Points Vanish in the Night as Sofia Kenin Ends Venus Williams’ US Open Return
Venus Williams vs. Sofia Kenin — US Open 2026 First-Round Match Report For a few minutes, Sofia Kenin looked as though she might be heading toward exactly the kind of unraveling that a player short on confidence fears most. Venus Williams had dragged herself back into the second set, the New York crowd had finally…
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Seven Break Points, No Breaks: Leylah Fernandez Shuts Zhang Out at the US Open
Zhang Shuai vs. Leylah Fernandez — US Open 2026 First-Round Match Report Zhang Shuai got seven looks at Leylah Fernandez’s serve. She converted none of them. That was the quiet cruelty of Fernandez’s 6-3, 6-2 opening-round victory at the US Open. Zhang had opportunities to complicate the match, but every time the Canadian came under…
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Kamilla Rakhimova Holds Her Nerve as Krejcikova Unravels at the US Open
Kamilla Rakhimova vs. Barbora Krejcikova — US Open 2026 First-Round Match Report Barbora Krejcikova hit almost three times as many winners as Kamilla Rakhimova. She also hit herself out of the US Open. Rakhimova absorbed the Czech’s heavier ball, stayed steadier when the match tightened and defeated the two-time Grand Slam singles champion 7-6(4), 6-2…
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Jessica Pegula Starts the US Open by Making Ruse Work for Everything
Jessica Pegula vs. Elena-Gabriela Ruse — US Open 2026 First-Round Match Report Jessica Pegula did not overwhelm Elena-Gabriela Ruse with one spectacular weapon. She did something considerably more suffocating. For much of their first-round match at the US Open, the Romanian had to work extraordinarily hard just to stay within touching distance. Pegula kept putting…
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Chris Evert vs. Martina Navratilova: Every Match of the Greatest Rivalry in Women’s Tennis
From their first meeting in 1973 to their 80th and final clash in 1988, RallyHer revisits every match between Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova — the rivalry that changed women’s tennis. Evert vs. Navratilova Head-to-Head at a Glance Few rivalries in tennis history lasted as long, shifted as dramatically or carried as much significance as…
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Qinwen Zheng Makes It, Andreescu Does Not, and the US Open Draw Delivers a Cruel Qualifier Twist
The qualifying tournament is over. Sixteen women have survived three rounds and are now officially part of the 2026 US Open main draw. For Qinwen Zheng, that meant completing the job after being pushed to three sets in her qualifying final. For Bianca Andreescu, it meant the opposite: after cruising through her first two matches,…
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Three in a Row? Aryna Sabalenka’s US Open Women’s Section and Main Draw Bracket Analysis
Aryna Sabalenka has spent the last two US Opens doing something nobody else in the women’s draw could stop. Now she gets the chance to make it three. The World No. 1 arrives in New York chasing a third consecutive US Open title, but with a curious contradiction attached to her name. Her last two…
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Coco Gauff Lands a Brutal US Open Women’s Section: Main Draw Bracket Analysis After Cincinnati
Coco Gauff could hardly arrive in New York with more momentum. She has just won Cincinnati, finished the tournament by sweeping Jessica Pegula 6-2, 6-4 and suddenly looks much closer to the player who won the US Open three years ago. Then the draw arrived. Gauff may be the No. 4 seed, but her US…
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Elena Rybakina Gets the Toughest US Open Women’s Section: Main Draw Bracket Analysis With No. 1 at Stake
A week ago, Elena Rybakina was unable to finish her Cincinnati Open quarterfinal. Now she has arrived in New York as the No. 2 seed, with the World No. 1 ranking closer than it has ever been and arguably the most difficult US Open draw of any woman in the top four. The first few…
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Georgia Is Perfect, Britain Is Flying and Four of 20 Americans Remain in US Open Qualifying
Sixty-four women entered the second round of US Open qualifying. Thirty-two are now one victory away from the main draw, and the national picture has changed considerably since the opening round. The United States still has the largest representation in absolute numbers, with four players reaching the final round of qualifying. But that number looks…
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Serena and Venus Williams Finally Get Their Grand Slam Reunion in New York
Wimbledon was supposed to bring them back together. Serena Williams’ knee had other ideas. Cincinnati finally got the sisters onto the same side of the net again. Now comes the reunion that matters most. Serena and Venus Williams have received a wildcard into the 2026 US Open women’s doubles draw, giving one of the most…
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Czech Republic Steals the Show in US Open Qualifying as 14 Americans Fall
The United States and the Czech Republic each produced six winners in the opening round of US Open qualifying, but they got there in very different ways. That curious contrast told much of the story across the first three days in New York. Seven Americans advanced from a huge 20-player contingent, but 14 were eliminated,…