List of US Open women's singles champions

The tournament is played on outdoor hard courts[c] at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows – Corona Park, New York City.

[6][1] The US Open is played during a two-week period in late August and early September and has been chronologically the last of the four Grand Slam tournaments of the tennis year since 1987.

From 1888 through 1918, the event started with a knockout phase, the All-Comers singles, whose winner faced the defending champion in a challenge round.

[11][4][12] The US Open is the only Grand Slam tournament to have a third set tie-break, which has occurred twice in women's singles finals in 1981 and in 1985.

[3] This event has been won without losing a set during the open era by Margaret Court in 1969, Billie Jean King in 1971 and 1972, Evert in 1976, 1977 and 1978, Martina Navratilova in 1983 and 1987, Monica Seles in 1992, Steffi Graf in 1996, Martina Hingis in 1997, Lindsay Davenport in 1998, Venus Williams in 2001, Serena Williams in 2002, 2008 and 2014, Justine Henin in 2007 and Emma Raducanu in 2021.

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Elisabeth Moore is a four-time champion
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Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman is a four-time champion
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Molla Bjurstedt Mallory 's eight US singles championships is the all–time record among both men and women.
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Helen Wills Moody is a seven-time champion
Maureen Connolly Brinker was a three-time champion
Margaret Court
Margaret Court is a five time champion
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Billie Jean King is a four-time champion overall and a three-time champion in the open era, and won three in four-year timespan
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American Chris Evert won an Open Era record four consecutive titles at the US Open between 1975 and 1978, and a record six overall (shared with Serena Williams) with victories in 1980 and 1982.
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Steffi Graf is a five-time champion.
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Serena Williams is a six-time champion, winning these over a fifteen-year period. She shares the Open Era titles record with Chris Evert.