Who will be the new queen of the US Open? The signs point to Aryna Sabalenka as the favorite to win (here Tennis World USA prediction), but the women’s singles has always brought surprises to New York. This year, many stars aspire to become queen of Flushing Meadows, but only one can ascend the throne. In addition to Sabalenka, obviously the WTA No.1 Iga Swiatek, the defending champion Coco Gauff, then the other Americans Danielle Collins and Jessica Pegula, the Kazakh Elena Rybakina and the outsiders Jasmine Paolini and Qinwen Zheng.
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But who are the tennis players who have written the history of the New York Major and who have taken an important piece in the history of tennis? Thinking of New York inevitably brings to mind Serena Williams, but there have been many tennis players who have written the history of women’s singles.
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Ellen Hansell was the first winner of the women’s tournament, in 1887. In the early years, women’s singles saw many winners, including Juliette Atkinson and Elizabeth Moore. During and after the First World War, Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, Mary Browne, Molla Bjurstedt Mallory (who holds the record for 8 titles – ed.) and Helen Wills Moody dominated the tournament.
In the 1930s Helen Hull Jacobs preceded Anita Lizana’s victory. The Chilean was the first Latin American player to win a Grand Slam in women’s singles. Between the late 1930s and the late 1950s, other great stars of women’s tennis emerged, who wrote important pages of history at the US Open: Alice Marble, Pauline Betz, Margaret Osborne duPont (the most successful player of the US Open ever with 25 titles between women’s singles, women’s doubles and mixed doubles), Maureen Connolly and Doris Hart.
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After Maria Bueno, there was the rise of Margaret Smith and Billie Jean King, who challenged each other in a super rivalry. Rivalry between the ’70s and ’80s that saw Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert as protagonists. Between the 1980s and 1990s the protagonists at Flushing Meadows were Steffi Graf and Monica Seles. With the new millennium Venus and Serena Williams, Kim Clijisters, Justin Henin and Maria Sharapova were the stars who lit up Flushing Meadows.
In recent years, there have been surprises and dominance, considering the triumphs of Flavia Pennetta, Angelique Kerber, Sloane Stephens and Naomi Osaka. In 2021, perhaps the biggest surprise in the history of the tournament arrived: Emma Raducanu won the title at 19 years old starting from the qualifications. In 2022, Iga Swiatek won in New York her first (and so far only) Major outside of Roland Garros clay-courts. Last season, the title was won by the American tennis star Coco Gauff, who hopes to emulate the feats of her illustrious countrywoman Serena Williams.
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