Past US Open Champs Aryna Sabalenka, Iga Swiatek, Coco Gauff And
A take a look at a few of the females to watch 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, positions with the championship trophy after defeating Jessica Pegula, of the United States, in the females's singles last of the U.S. Open tennis champions, 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 last year's champ in New York. ... Began her U.S. Open profession by going 5-3 in her very first 3 trips and is 23-3 given that then, getting to the past 2 finals and the semifinals the 2 years before that. ... Was the runner-up at each of this season ´ s initially two Grand Slam tournaments, the Australian Open and French Open, then bailed out at Wimbledon in the semifinals. ... Replaced Iga Swiatek at No. 1 late last season.
She Said It: "I mean, I know that I have to go for it. That ´ s the only way it works for me, due to the fact that every time I ´ m attempting to play more secure ... 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 last
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 2 of her past three competitions after failing to reach a final anywhere for more than a year and went back to No. 2 in the rankings this week after moving as low as No. 8. ... Those two current titles came on fast surface areas: on turf at Wimbledon - where she enhanced to 6-0 in Grand Slam finals by winning there for the very first time - and on difficult courts at the Cincinnati Open on Monday. ... Her 11 WTA 1000 titles rank second to Serena Williams' 13 given that 2009.
She Said It: "I returned to being my old kind of self."
Read Everything about It: Iga Swiatek won Wimbledon after a tough 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 second Grand Slam title at the French Open on red clay. The very first came at the U.S. Open in 2023 while she was still a teen. ... In 2015'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 certainly discovered a great deal of what I would and would not do again."
Read Everything about It: Coco Gauff went from French Open champion to a quick 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 career in Grand Slam quarterfinals until a year back at the U.S. Open, where she distressed Swiatek at that stage en route to reaching her very first significant final. ... Won a title on every surface in 2025: hard, clay and lawn courts. ... Has lost 4 of her past six matches.
She Said It: "I feel really up and down, kind of careless, which I don ´ 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, distressing Swiatek in the semifinals and Sabalenka in the last. ... Best profession moments have begun difficult courts, consisting of 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, every single point. And if I missed it and I simply didn ´ t carry out, I might live with that."
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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 played at a Grand Slam competition because the U.S. Open 2 years earlier. ... After 16 months far from the trip, Williams returned to action in July at Washington, one match in songs and one in doubles. ... She will be the oldest player to contend in songs at Flushing Meadows considering that 1981.
She Said It: "Just to be here at all is really a true blessing, and after that to play well is simply another blessing."
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