(Reuters) – List of U.S. Open women’s singles champions since the tournament began in 1887:
2021 – Emma Raducanu (Britain) beat Leylah Fernandez (Canada) 6-4 6-3
2020 – Naomi Osaka (Japan) beat Victoria Azarenka (Belarus) 1-6 6-3 6-3
2019 – Bianca Andreescu (Canada) beat Serena Williams (U.S.) 6-3 7-5
2018 – Osaka beat Serena Williams (U.S.) 6-2 6-4
2017 – Sloane Stephens (U.S.) beat Madison Keys (U.S.) 6-3 6-0
2016 – Angelique Kerber (Germany) beat Karolina Pliskova (Czech Republic) 6-3 4-6 6-4
2015 – Flavia Pennetta (Italy) beat Roberta Vinci (Italy) 7-6(4) 6-2
2014 – Serena Williams (U.S.) beat Caroline Wozniacki (Denmark) 6-3 6-3
2013 – Serena Williams beat Victoria Azarenka (Belarus) 7-5 6-7(6) 6-1
2012 – Serena Williams beat Azarenka 6-2 2-6 7-5
2011 – Samantha Stosur (Australia) beat Serena Williams 6-2 6-3
2010 – Kim Clijsters (Belgium) beat Vera Zvonareva (Russia) 6-2 6-1
2009 – Clijsters beat Wozniacki 7-5 6-3
2008 – Serena Williams beat Jelena Jankovic (Serbia) 6-4 7-5
2007 – Justine Henin (Belgium) beat Svetlana Kuznetsova (Russia) 6-1 6-3
2006 – Maria Sharapova (Russia) beat Henin 6-4 6-4
2005 – Clijsters beat Mary Pierce (France) 6-3 6-1
2004 – Kuznetsova beat Elena Dementieva (Russia) 6-3 7-5
2003 – Henin beat Clijsters 7-5 6-1
2002 – Serena Williams beat Venus Williams (U.S.) 6-4 6-3
2001 – Venus Williams beat Serena Williams 6-2 6-4
2000 – Venus Williams beat Lindsay Davenport (U.S.) 6-4 7-5
1999 – Serena Williams beat Martina Hingis (Switzerland) 6-3 7-6
1998 – Davenport beat Hingis 6-3 7-5
1997 – Hingis beat Venus Williams 6-0 6-4
1996 – Steffi Graf (Germany) beat Monica Seles (U.S.) 7-5 6-4
1995 – Graf beat Seles 7-6 0-6 6-3
1994 – Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario (Spain) beat Graf 1-6 7-6 6-4
1993 – Graf beat Helena Sukova (Czech Republic) 6-3 6-3
1992 – Seles beat Sanchez-Vicario 6-3 6-3
1991 – Seles beat Martina Navratilova (U.S.) 7-6 6-1
1990 – Gabriela Sabatini (Argentina) beat Graf 6-2 7-6
1989 – Graf beat Navratilova 3-6 7-5 6-1
1988 – Graf beat Sabatini 6-3 3-6 6-1
1987 – Navratilova beat Graf 7-6 6-1
1986 – Navratilova beat Sukova 6-3 6-2
1985 – Hana Mandlikova (Czechoslovakia) beat Navratilova 7-6 1-6 7-6
1984 – Navratilova beat Chris Evert-Lloyd 4-6 6-4 6-4
1983 – Navratilova beat Evert-Lloyd 6-1 6-3
1982 – Evert-Lloyd beat Mandlikova 6-3 6-1
1981 – Tracy Austin (U.S.) beat Navratilova 1-6 7-6 7-6
1980 – Evert-Lloyd beat Mandlikova 5-7 6-1 6-1
1979 – Austin beat Evert-Lloyd 6-4 6-3
1978 – Evert beat Pam Shriver (U.S.) 7-5 6-4
1977 – Evert beat Wendy Turnbull (Australia) 7-6 6-2
1976 – Evert beat Evonne Goolagong (Australia) 6-3 6-0
1975 – Evert beat Goolagong 5-7 6-4 6-2
1974 – Billie Jean King (U.S.) beat Goolagong 3-6 6-3 7-5
1973 – Margaret Smith Court (Australia) beat Goolagong 7-6 5-7 6-2
1972 – King beat Kerry Melville (Australia) 6-3 7-5
1971 – King beat Rosemary Casals (U.S.) 6-4 7-6
1970 – Smith Court beat Casals 6-2 2-6 6-1
1969 – Smith Court beat Nancy Richey (U.S.) 6-2 6-2
1968 – Virginia Wade (Britain) beat King 6-4 6-4
U.S. National Championships
1967 – Billie Jean King (U.S.) beat Ann Haydon Jones (Britain) 11-9 6-4
1966 – Maria Bueno (Brazil) beat Nancy Richey (U.S.) 6-3 6-1
1965 – Margaret Smith (Australia) beat Billie Jean Moffitt (U.S.) 8-6 7-5
1964 – Bueno (Brazil) beat Carole Caldwell Graebner (U.S.) 6-1 6-0
1963 – Bueno (Brazil) beat Margaret Smith (Australia) 7-5 6-4
1962 – Margaret Smith (Australia) beat Darlene Hard (U.S.) 9-7 6-4
1961 – Hard (U.S.) beat Ann Haydon (Britain) 6-3 6-4
1960 – Hard (U.S.) beat Maria Bueno (Brazil) 6-4 10-12 6-4
1959 – Bueno (Brazil) beat Christine Truman (Britain) 6-1 6-4
1958 – Althea Gibson (U.S.) beat Hard (U.S.) 3-6 6-1 6-2
1957 – Gibson (U.S.) beat Louise Brough (U.S.) 6-3 6-2
1956 – Shirley Fry (U.S.) beat Gibson (U.S.) 6-3 6-4
1955 – Doris Hart (U.S.) beat Patricia Ward Hales (Britain) 6-4 6-2
1954 – Hart (U.S.) beat Brough (U.S.) 6-8 6-1 8-6
1953 – Maureen Connolly (U.S.) beat Hart (U.S.) 6-2 6-4
1952 – Connolly (U.S.) beat Hart (U.S.) 6-3 7-5
1951 – Connolly (U.S.) beat Fry (U.S.) 6-3 1-6 6-4
1950 – Margaret Osborne (U.S.) beat Hart (U.S.) 6-4 6-3
1949 – Osborne (U.S.) beat Hart (U.S.) 6-3 6-1
1948 – Osborne (U.S.) beat Brough (U.S.) 4-6 6-4 15-13
1947 – Brough (U.S.) beat Osborne (U.S.) 8-6 4-6 6-1
1946 – Pauline Betz (U.S.) beat Hart (U.S.) 11-9 6-3
1945 – Sarah Palfrey Cooke (U.S.) beat Betz (U.S.) 3-6 8-6 6-4
1944 – Betz (U.S.) beat Osborne (U.S.) 6-3 8-6
1943 – Betz (U.S.) beat Brough (U.S.) 6-3 5-7 6-3
1942 – Betz (U.S.) beat Brough (U.S.) 4-6 6-1 6-4
1941 – Cooke (U.S.) beat Betz (U.S.) 7-5 6-2
1940 – Alice Marble (U.S.) beat Helen Jacobs (U.S.) 6-2 6-3
1939 – Marble (U.S.) beat Jacobs (U.S.) 6-0 8-10 6-4
1938 – Marble (U.S.) beat Nancye Wynne Bolton (Australia) 6-0 6-3
1937 – Anita Lizana (Chile) beat Jadwiga Jedrzejowska (Poland) 6-4 6-2
1936 – Marble (U.S.) beat Jacobs (U.S.) 4-6 6-3 6-2
1935 – Jacobs (U.S.) beat Cooke (U.S.) 6-2 6-4
1934 – Jacobs (U.S.) beat Cooke (U.S.) 6-1 6-4
1933 – Jacobs (U.S.) beat Helen Wills Moody (U.S.) 8-6 3-6 3-0 retired
1932 – Jacobs (U.S.) beat Carolin Babcock (U.S.) 6-2 6-2
1931 – Moody (U.S.) beat Eileen Bennett (Britain) 6-4 6-1
1930 – Betty Nuthall (Britain) beat Anna McCune Harper (U.S.) 6-1 6-4
1929 – Wills (U.S.) beat Phoebe Holcroft Watson (Britain) 6-4 6-2
1928 – Wills (U.S.) beat Jacobs (U.S.) 6-2 6-1
1927 – Wills (U.S.) beat Nuthall (Britain) 6-1 6-4
1926 – Molla Mallory (U.S.) beat Elizabeth Ryan (U.S.) 4-6 6-4 9-7
1925 – Wills (U.S.) beat Kitty McKane Godfree (Britain) 3-6 6-0 6-2
1924 – Wills (U.S.) beat Mallory (U.S.) 6-1 6-3
1923 – Wills (U.S.) beat Mallory (U.S.) 6-2 6-1
1922 – Mallory (U.S.) beat Wills (U.S.) 6-3 6-1
1921 – Mallory (U.S.) beat Mary Browne (U.S.) 4-6 6-4 6-2
1920 – Mallory (U.S.) beat Marion Zinderstein (U.S.) 6-3 6-1
1919 – Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman (U.S.) beat Zinderstein (U.S.) 6-1 6-2
1918 – Molla Bjurstedt (Norway) beat Eleanor Goss (U.S.) 6-4 6-3
1917 – Bjurstedt (Norway) beat Marion Vanderhoef (U.S.) 4-6 6-0 6-2
1916 – Bjurstedt (Norway) beat Louise Hammond Raymond (U.S.) 6-0 6-1
1915 – Bjurstedt (Norway) beat Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman (U.S.) 4-6 6-2 6-0
1914 – Mary Browne (U.S.) beat Marie Wagner (U.S.) 6-2 1-6 6-1
1913 – Browne (U.S.) beat Dorothy Green (U.S.) 6-2 7-5
1912 – Browne (U.S.) beat Eleonora Sears (U.S.) 6-4 6-2
1911 – Wightman (U.S.) beat Florence Sutton (U.S.) 8-10 6-1 9-7
1910 – Wightman (U.S.) beat Louise Hammond Raymond (U.S.) 6-4 6-2
1909 – Wightman (U.S.) beat Maud Barger-Wallach (U.S.) 6-0 6-1
1908 – Barger-Wallach (U.S.) beat Evelyn Sears (U.S.) 6-3 1-6 6-3
1907 – Sears (U.S.) beat Carrie Neely (U.S.) 6-3 6-2
1906 – Helen Homans (U.S.) beat Barger-Wallach (U.S.) 6-4 6-3
1905 – Elisabeth Moore (U.S.) beat Homans (U.S.) 6-4 5-7 6-1
1904 – May Sutton (U.S.) beat Elisabeth Moore (U.S.) 6-1 6-2
1903 – Moore (U.S.) beat Marion Jones (U.S.) 7-5 8-6
1902 – Jones (U.S.) beat Moore (U.S.) 6-1 1-0 retired
1901 – Moore (U.S.) beat Myrtle McAteer (U.S.) 6-4 3-6 7-5 2-6 6-2
1900 – McAteer (U.S.) beat Edith Parker (U.S.) 6-2 6-2 6-0
1899 – Jones (U.S.) beat Maud Banks (U.S.) 6-1 6-1 7-5
1898 – Juliette Atkinson (U.S.) beat Jones (U.S.) 6-3 5-7 6-4 2-6 7-5
1897 – Atkinson (U.S.) beat Moore (U.S.) 6-3 6-3 4-6 3-6 6-3
1896 – Moore (U.S.) beat Atkinson (U.S.) 6-4 4-6 6-2 6-2
1895 – Atkinson (U.S.) beat Helen Hellwig (U.S.) 6-4 6-2 6-1
1894 – Hellwig (U.S.) beat Aline Terry (U.S.) 7-5 3-6 6-0 3-6 6-3
1893 – Terry (U.S.) beat Augusta Schultz (U.S.) 6-1 6-3
1892 – Mabel Cahill* (Britain) beat Moore (U.S.) 5-7 6-3 6-4 4-6 6-2
1891 – Cahill (Britain) beat Ellen Roosevelt (U.S.) 6-4 6-1 4-6 6-3
1890 – Roosevelt (U.S.) beat Bertha Townsend (U.S.) 6-2 6-2
1889 – Townsend (U.S.) beat Lida Voorhees (U.S.) 7-5 6-2
1888 – Townsend (U.S.) beat Ellen Hansell (U.S.) 6-3 6-5
1887 – Hansell (U.S.) beat Laura Knight (U.S.) 6-1 6-0
* Mabel Cahill from United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
(Compiled by Rohith Nair in Bengaluru)
