Past US Open Champs Aryna Sabalenka, Iga Swiatek, Coco Gauff And
A take a look at a few of the ladies to enjoy 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, positions with the after beating Jessica Pegula, of the United States, in the women'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 in 2015's champ in New york city. ... Began her U.S. Open profession by going 5-3 in her first 3 trips and is 23-3 because then, getting to the previous 2 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 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 method it works for me, because whenever I ´ m trying to play safer ... I stop my arms, and the ball flies in the stands."
Read All 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 previous 3 tournaments after failing to reach a final anywhere for more than a year and returned to No. 2 in the rankings today after sliding as low as No. 8. ... Those two recent titles came on quick surface areas: on lawn 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 2nd to Serena Williams' 13 given that 2009.
She Said It: "I returned to being my old kind of self."
Read All About It: Iga Swiatek won Wimbledon after a hard 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 first came at the U.S. Open in 2023 while she was still a teen. ... 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 certainly learned a lot 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 career in Grand Slam quarterfinals till a year back at the U.S. Open, where she distressed Swiatek at that stage en route to reaching her first significant final. ... Won a title on every surface in 2025: hard, clay and grass courts. ... Has lost four of her previous 6 matches.
She Said It: "I feel really up and down, sort of careless, which I put on ´ 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, distressing Swiatek in the semifinals and Sabalenka in the final. ... Best profession minutes have come on hard courts, including a runner-up showing 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 went after it, every point. And if I missed it and I simply didn ´ t perform, 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 dipped into a Grand Slam tournament since the U.S. Open two years ago. ... After 16 months far from the tour, Williams returned to action in July at Washington, winning one match in singles and one in doubles. ... She will be the earliest player to complete in singles at Flushing Meadows since 1981.
She Said It: "Just to be here at all is truly a true blessing, and after that to play well is just another blessing."
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