Past US Open Champs Aryna Sabalenka, Iga Swiatek, Coco Gauff And
A look at some of the women to see at the U.S. Open, which begins Sunday, with money-line odds through BetMGM Sportsbook:
Ranked: 1
Country: Belarus
Age: 27
2025 Record: 50-10
FILE - Aryna Sabalenka, of Belarus, presents with the champion trophy after beating Jessica Pegula, of the United States, in the ladies's singles final of the U.S. Open tennis championships, Sept. 7, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)
Career Titles: 20
Grand Slam Titles: 3 - U.S. Open (1: 2024), Australian Open (2: 2023, 2024)
Last 5 U.S. Opens: 2024-Won Championship, 2023-Runner-Up, 2022-Lost in Semifinals, 2021-SF, 2020-2nd Round
Aces: Was in 2015's champ in New york city. ... Began her U.S. Open career by going 5-3 in her very first three trips and is 23-3 ever since, getting to the previous two finals and the semifinals the two years before that. ... Was the runner-up at each of this season ´ s initially 2 Grand Slam competitions, the Australian Open and French Open, then bowed out at Wimbledon in the semifinals. ... Replaced Iga Swiatek at No. 1 late last season.
She Said It: "I indicate, I understand that I have to go for it. That ´ s the only method it works for me, because every time I ´ m attempting to play safer ... I stop my arms, and the ball flies in the stands."
Read Everything about It: Aryna Sabalenka beat Jessica Pegula in the 2024 U.S. Open final
Odds Are: +300
Ranked: 2
Country: Poland
Age: 24
2025 Record: 49-12
Career Titles: 24
Grand Slam Titles: 6 - U.S. Open (1: 2022), French Open (4: 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024), Wimbledon (1: 2025)
Last 5 U.S. Opens: 2024-QF, 2023-4th, 2022-W, 2021-4th, 2020-3rd
Aces: Has won two of her previous 3 competitions after failing to reach a final anywhere for more than a year and returned to No. 2 in the rankings this week after sliding as low as No. 8. ... Those two recent titles began quick surfaces: on turf at Wimbledon - where she improved to 6-0 in Grand Slam finals by winning there for the very first time - and on tough courts at the Cincinnati Open on Monday. ... Her 11 WTA 1000 titles rank second to 13 given that 2009.
She Said It: "I came back to being my old sort of self."
Read Everything about It: Iga Swiatek won Wimbledon after a challenging year
Odds Are: +275
Ranked: 3
Career-Best Ranking: 2
Age: 21
2025 Record: 35-12
2025 Titles: 1
Grand Slam Titles: 2 - U.S. Open (2023 ), French Open (2025 )
Last 5 U.S. Opens: 2024-4th, 2023-W, 2022-QF, 2021-2nd, 2020-1st
Aces: Earned her 2nd Grand Slam title at the French Open on red clay. The first came at the U.S. Open in 2023 while she was still a teenager. ... Last year's title defense at Flushing Meadows ended with a fourth-round loss to American Emma Navarro; Gauff double-faulted 19 times in that defeat. ... Gauff is coming off a first-round exit at Wimbledon in the last major.
She Said It: "I definitely learned a great deal of what I would and would refrain from doing again."
Read All About It: Coco Gauff went from French Open champ to a fast Wimbledon exit
Odds Are: +600
Ranked: 4
Career-Best Ranking: 3
Age: 31
2025 Record: 37-16
2025 Titles: 3
Career Titles: 9
Grand Slam Titles: Zero - Best: Runner-Up, U.S. Open (2024 )
Last 5 US Opens: 2024-Runner-Up, 2023-4th, 2022-QF, 2021-3rd, 2020-3rd
Aces: Had been 0-6 for her profession in Grand Slam quarterfinals till a year ago at the U.S. Open, where she disturbed Swiatek at that phase en path to reaching her first significant final. ... Won a title on every surface in 2025: hard, clay and lawn courts. ... Has lost four of her previous six matches.
She Said It: "I feel really up and down, type of sloppy, which I put on ´ t like."
Read All About It: Jessica Pegula beat Iga Swiatek at the 2024 U.S. Open
Odds Are: +1800
Ranked: 6
Career-Best Ranking: 5
Age: 30
2025 Record: 37-12
2025 Titles: 2
Career Titles: 10
Grand Slam Titles: 1 - Australian Open (2025 )
Last 5 US Opens: 2024-3rd, 2023-SF, 2022-3rd, 2021-1st, 2020-3rd
Aces: Captured her very first Grand Slam title at the Australian Open in January, disturbing Swiatek in the semifinals and Sabalenka in the final. ... Best profession moments have actually begun hard courts, including a runner-up revealing at the U.S. Open in 2017 and reaching the semifinals at Flushing Meadows two other times, in 2018 and 2023.
She Said It: "I pursued it, each and every single point. And if I missed it and I just didn ´ t execute, I might deal with that."
Read All About It: Madison Keys told herself to be brave on the way to winning the Australian Open
Odds Are: +1200
Ranked: 610
Career-Best Ranking: 1
Country: United States
Age: 45
2025 Record: 1-2
2025 Titles: Zero
Career Titles: 49
Grand Slam Titles: 7 - U.S. Open (2: 2000, 2001), Wimbledon (5: 2000, 2001, 2005, 2007, 2008)
Last 5 U.S. Opens: 2024-Did Not Play, 2023-1st, 2022-1st, 2021-DNP, 2020-1st
Aces: Hasn't dipped into a Grand Slam competition considering that the U.S. Open two years ago. ... After 16 months away from the trip, Williams went back to action in July at Washington, winning one match in songs and one in doubles. ... She will be the earliest gamer to complete in songs at Flushing Meadows because 1981.
She Said It: "Just to be here at all is truly a true blessing, and then to play well is simply another true blessing."
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Odds Are: Not noted
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