The women who made US Open history in New York. © Al Bello / Getty Images Sport Staff
The long-awaited US Open 2023 is finally about to begin. Many women’s tennis stars will be vying for the overall victory at Flushing Meadows: Iga Swiatek, Elena Rybakina, Aryna Sabalenka, Ons Jabeur and Coco Gauff are the favorites for the overall victory.
But here are the tennis players who wrote the history of the tournament. Ellen Hansell was the first winner of the women’s tournament, in 1887.In the first years of its existence, the tournament had many winnersincluding Juliette Atkinson (3 titles) and Elizabeth Moore (4 titles), but the golden period came first, during and after the First World War, when Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman (4 titles), Mary Browne (3 titles), Molla Bjurstedt Mallory (8 titles, record) and Helen Wills Moody (7 titles) dominated the tournament for a period of 21 years.
In the 1930s, Helen Hull Jacobs (4 titles) preceded the victory of Anita Lizana; the Chilean was the first Latin American player to win a Grand Slam in women’s singles.
Between the end of the 1930s and the end of the 1950s, other great female tennis stars appearedwho have written important pages in the history of the US Open: Alice Marble (4 titles), Pauline Betz (4 titles), Margaret Osborne duPont (3 titles, but ellShe is the most successful player at the US Open with 25 titles!
), Maureen Connolly (3 titles) and Doris Hart (2 titles). Maria Bueno (4 titles), witnessed the rise of Margaret Smith (5 titles) and Billie Jean King (4 titles), who faced each other in a fierce rivalry. The rivalry between the 70s and 80s had for protagonists Martina Navratilova (4 titles) and Chris Evert (6 titles).
Between the 80s and 90s, the protagonists at Flushing Meadows were Steffi Graf (5 titles) and Monica Seles (2 titles). With the new millennium, the stars were (and still are for some!) Venus and Serena Williams (respectively 6 and 2 titles), Kim Clijisters (3 titles), Justin Henin (2 titles) and Maria Sharapova.
In recent years, there has always been a surprising winner : Flavia Pennetta, Angelique Kerber, Sloane Stephens and Naomi Osaka (twice). In the 2021 season, there was a surprising final between the two teenagers Emma Raducanu and Leylah Fernandez, won by the British player. Last season, Iga Swiatek won her first title on the hard courts at Arthur Ashe Stadium.
2023-08-27 21:00:56
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