Past United States Open Champs Aryna Sabalenka, Iga Swiatek, Coco Gauff And
A look at some of the ladies to see at the U.S. Open, which starts Sunday, with money-line odds through BetMGM Sportsbook:
Ranked: 1
Country: Belarus
Age: 27
2025 Record: 50-10
FILE - Aryna Sabalenka, of Belarus, postures with the championship prize after defeating Jessica Pegula, of the United States, in the females's singles final of the U.S. Open tennis championships, Sept. 7, 2024, in New . (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 career by going 5-3 in her first 3 journeys and is 23-3 since then, 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 tournaments, 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 imply, I understand that I have to go for it. That ´ s the only way it works for me, due to the fact that whenever 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 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 2 of her previous 3 competitions after failing to reach a last anywhere for more than a year and went back to No. 2 in the rankings today after moving as low as No. 8. ... Those 2 current titles began 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 tough courts at the Cincinnati Open on Monday. ... Her 11 WTA 1000 titles rank second to Serena Williams' 13 since 2009.
She Said It: "I came back to being my old type of self."
Read All 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 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. ... 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 learned a great deal of what I would and would not do again."
Read All About It: Coco Gauff went from French Open champion 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 career in Grand Slam quarterfinals until a year back at the U.S. Open, where she upset Swiatek at that stage en route to reaching her first major final. ... Won a title on every surface area in 2025: hard, clay and turf courts. ... Has lost four of her previous 6 matches.
She Said It: "I feel really up and down, sort of careless, which I wear ´ t like."
Read Everything 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, upsetting Swiatek in the semifinals and Sabalenka in the last. ... 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 2 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 execute, I could cope with that."
Read Everything about It: Madison Keys informed herself to be brave en route 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 played at a Grand Slam competition given that the U.S. Open 2 years back. ... After 16 months far 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 oldest player to compete in songs at Flushing Meadows given that 1981.
She Said It: "Just to be here at all is truly a blessing, and after that to play well is just another true blessing."
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Odds Are: Not noted
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