Bianca Andreescu
Bianca Vanessa Andreescu (; born June 16, 2000) is a Canadian professional tennis player. She has been WTA rankings, ranked world No. 4 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association, WTA. Andreescu has won two singles titles on the WTA T ...
defeated
Serena Williams
Serena Jameka Williams (born September 26, 1981) is an American former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the List of WTA number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WT ...
in the final, 6–3, 7–5 to win the women's singles tennis title at the 2019 US Open. It was her first
major
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title. Andreescu was the first Canadian, as well as the first player born in the 2000s, to win a major singles title.
She was the youngest player to win the title since
Svetlana Kuznetsova
Svetlana Aleksandrovna Kuznetsova (born 27 June 1985) is a Russian former professional tennis player. She was ranked as high as world No. 2 in singles and world No. 3 in doubles by the Women's Tennis Association, WTA. Kuznetsova won 18 singl ...
in
2004
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, and the first woman to win the
US Open on her main draw debut. This was the first time a player won a major on their debut appearance since
Monica Seles
Monica Seles (born December 2, 1973) is a Serbian–American former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the List of WTA number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for ...
won the
1991 Australian Open. In addition, Andreescu tied Seles’ Open Era record of the shortest time from major debut to winning a title, winning on her fourth major appearance (a record broken just
two years later by
Emma Raducanu).
This was the largest age gap (18 years) between two women's major finalists in the Open Era.
With the win, Andreescu entered the top 5 in
rankings for the first time.
Naomi Osaka
is a Japanese professional tennis player. She has been ranked as the List of WTA number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association, WTA for 25 weeks, the first Asian player to hold the ...
was the defending champion, but lost to
Belinda Bencic in the fourth round.
It marked the first time in history that the tournament's draw included eight former champions: Osaka,
Sloane Stephens
Sloane Stephens (born March 20, 1993) is an American professional tennis player. She has achieved a career-best ranking of world No. 3 by the Women's Tennis Association, WTA. Stephens has won eight WTA Tour-level singles titles, including the 2 ...
,
Angelique Kerber
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, Serena Williams,
Samantha Stosur
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,
Maria Sharapova
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, Kuznetsova, and
Venus Williams
Venus Ebony Starr Williams (born June 17, 1980) is an American inactive tennis player. She has been ranked as the List of WTA number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association, WTA for 11 wee ...
.
In reaching her 33rd and last career major final, Williams set a new record for the longest gap between a player's first and last major final appearances, her first being twenty years prior at the
1999 US Open. She also equaled the record for the most match wins at the US Open held by
Chris Evert
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(101 wins). Williams was attempting to equal
Margaret Court
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's
all-time record of 24 major singles titles, and to win an Open Era record seventh US Open title.
Despite losing in the fourth round,
Ashleigh Barty
Ashleigh Jacinta Barty (born 24 April 1996) is an Australian former professional tennis player and cricketer. She was ranked as the List of WTA number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Assoc ...
regained the
world No. 1 singles ranking from Osaka.
In addition to Barty and Osaka,
Karolína Plíšková
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and
Simona Halep
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were also in contention for the top ranking.
This tournament marked the first US Open appearance of
future champion Iga Świątek
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; she lost to
Anastasija Sevastova in the second round.
Seeds
Seeding per WTA rankings.
Qualifying
Draw
Finals
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Bottom half
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
Championship match ratings
3.219 million watched on
ESPN
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in the US.
In Canada, preliminary data from
Numeris showed a combined average audience of 3.4 million viewers on
TSN and
RDS, in English and French, respectively. Canadian viewership peaked at 5.3 million viewers at 5:59pm during the second set.
Championship match statistics
References
External links
Women's Singles main draw2019 US Open – Women's draws and resultsat the
International Tennis Federation
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