Every US Open Singles Champion Since 1968, and Who Has Won the Most

Most US Open titles: Mallory, Sears, Larned and Tilden

Mallory won her first four, from 1915 to 1918, under the flag of Norway and the next four for the United States, the last at 42. Sears won the first seven men's championships, from 1881 to 1887, four of them as the holder in the Challenge Round; Larned won seven between 1901 and 1911, five as the holder, and Tilden seven in the 1920s, six in a row and part of his 10 majors.

Federer's five straight, from 2004 to 2008, are the most since Tilden's six, and no man has defended the title in the 18 editions since. Evert won four in a row from 1975 to 1978, and Aryna Sabalenka, in 2025, is the latest woman to repeat.

The US Open is also the major that Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic dominated least. From Federer's first major, at Wimbledon in 2003, to Djokovic's last, at the 2023 US Open, they won 13 of the 21 US Opens, 62 percent, and at least 17 of 20 at each of the others.

US Open winners list: every champion since 1968

The US Open entered the Open Era, which admitted professionals, in 1968. Champions, runners-up and scores match the WTA's honor roll for every women's final through 2025 and the ATP's draws for every men's final since 2000.

The U.S. National Championships before 1968

The men's championship began at Newport, Rhode Island, in 1881 and the women's in 1887, and both have been played every year since: 87 men's and 81 women's editions before the Open Era. From 1884 to 1911 for men and 1888 to 1918 for women, the holder played only the Challenge Round against the winner of the draw.

Americans won 38 of the 39 men's titles through 1919, all but Laurence Doherty's in 1903, and 27 of the 33 women's. Fred Perry won three in the 1930s, the last British man until Andy Murray in 2012, and Australian men won 12 of the 17 titles from 1951 to 1967.

US Open winners by country and the American men's drought

Americans have won 85 of the 146 men's titles and 93 of the 140 women's, 19 and 26 of them since 1968. Australia is next among men with 18, ahead of Spain with eight; among women, Australia and Germany have six each.

Andy Roddick, in 2003, is the last American man to win. The 23 US Opens since are almost twice the previous longest wait, 12, from 1956 to 1967, and no American man has won any of the 91 majors played since; Andre Agassi in 2005, Roddick in 2006, Taylor Fritz in 2024 and Ben Shelton in 2026 lost finals. Coco Gauff, in 2023, is the latest American woman.

Grass, clay and hard courts at the US Open

The championships were played on grass until 1974, on Har-Tru clay at Forest Hills from 1975 to 1977 and on hard courts since the move to Flushing Meadows in 1978. Jimmy Connors is the only player to win on all three, in 1974, 1976 and 1978, and Evert, who won all three clay editions and three more on hard courts, is the only woman with titles on two surfaces.

Serena Williams has the most titles on hard courts, six, ahead of Sampras, Federer and Steffi Graf with five each. Americans have won 15 of the 49 men's titles and 20 of the 49 women's on hard courts.

The US Open and the calendar Grand Slam

Every calendar-year Grand Slam was completed at the U.S. Championships or the US Open: Don Budge in 1938, Maureen Connolly in 1953, Rod Laver in 1962 and 1969, Margaret Court in 1970 and Graf in 1988. Four players arrived with the year's first three majors and lost: Jack Crawford the 1933 final to Fred Perry, Lew Hoad the 1956 final to Ken Rosewall, Serena Williams the 2015 semifinal to Roberta Vinci and Djokovic the 2021 final to Daniil Medvedev.

Seeds, unseeded champions and one-major winners

Since 1968 the No. 1 seed has won 18 of the 59 men's titles and 22 of the 59 women's; since 2000, 10 of 27 and 6 of 27. Four champions were unseeded, second only to the French Open: Andre Agassi in 1994, Kim Clijsters, a wildcard, in 2009, Sloane Stephens in 2017 and Emma Raducanu, a qualifier, in 2021. The lowest seeds to win were Sampras, 17th in 2002, at his last major, and Flavia Pennetta, 26th in 2015.

Eight men's titles since 1968 went to players who won no other major, as at the Australian Open, against 15 at the French Open and four at Wimbledon: Manuel Orantes, Patrick Rafter twice, Roddick, Juan Martin del Potro, Marin Cilic, Dominic Thiem and Medvedev. Eight women's did too: Tracy Austin twice, Gabriela Sabatini, Samantha Stosur, Pennetta, Stephens, Bianca Andreescu and Raducanu.

Since 2000, first-time US Open champions have won 15 of the 27 men's titles and 16 of the 27 women's, and nine men and nine women won their first major here, most recently Carlos Alcaraz in 2022 and Gauff in 2023. The five women's champions from 2015 to 2019 were all first-time winners, the longest such run since 1968.

Youngest and oldest US Open champions

• Youngest since 1968: Austin, 16 in 1979, and Sampras, 19 years and 28 days in 1990; Alcaraz, 19 in 2022, is the only other teenage men's champion.
• Oldest since 1968: Djokovic, 36 years and 111 days in 2023, and Rosewall, 35 in 1970; among women Pennetta, 33 years and 199 days in 2015, the oldest first-time major champion of the Open Era.
• Teenagers: they won 12 women's titles since 1968, Gauff's the latest.

US Open finals: sets, tiebreaks and comebacks

The US Open brought the tiebreak to the majors in 1970, in every set including the last. Since then 28 of the 57 men's finals have had at least one, but only one of the nine that went to a fifth set was settled by a tiebreak: Thiem's 7-6 (8-6) over Zverev in 2020. Austin in 1981 and Hana Mandlikova in 1985 won women's finals in a third-set tiebreak, both against Martina Navratilova.

Counting from the scores, 24 of the 59 men's finals since 1968, 41 percent, went in straight sets and 10, 17 percent, to five, while 18 of the 59 women's finals, 31 percent, went to a third. Thiem's is the only men's final of the Open Era won from two sets down, the first since Pancho Gonzales in 1949, and Connors's 6-1, 6-0, 6-1 over Rosewall in 1974 is the most one-sided of all 146.

The 2026 US Open finals

Zverev, the No. 1 seed with Jannik Sinner not in the draw, beat Shelton, the eighth seed, 6-3, 7-6 (2), 5-7, 6-2 on Sunday, September 13, for his second major after the French Open. He is the fourth man in the Open Era whose first two majors came in the same season, after Connors in 1974, Guillermo Vilas in 1977 and Sinner in 2024, and the first German men's champion in New York since Boris Becker in 1989. Shelton had beaten Alcaraz, the second seed, in a fifth-set tiebreak in the quarterfinals.

The day before, Rybakina, the second seed, beat Sabalenka, the No. 1 seed and two-time defending champion, 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 for her third major and Kazakhstan's first US Open title. No woman had beaten the holder in the final since Serena Williams beat Venus Williams in 2002, and it was Sabalenka's fourth straight final in New York. Results from the events in play are on the Vertize tennis scores page.

US Open winners: frequently asked questions

Who has won the most US Open titles? Molla Mallory, with eight women's titles from 1915 to 1926. Richard Sears, William Larned and Bill Tilden hold the men's record with seven each.

Who won the US Open in 2026? Alexander Zverev, who beat Ben Shelton, and Elena Rybakina, who beat Aryna Sabalenka.

Who was the last American man to win the US Open? Andy Roddick, in 2003. The latest American woman is Coco Gauff, in 2023.

Has an unseeded player won the US Open? Four times since 1968: Andre Agassi in 1994, Kim Clijsters in 2009, Sloane Stephens in 2017 and Emma Raducanu in 2021.

How this was built: every singles final of the U.S. National Championships and the US Open, 146 men's since 1881 and 140 women's since 1887, from Wikipedia's lists of men's and women's champions, with the runner-up, score and flag at the time. Seeds since 1968 come from the Wikipedia draw pages, checked against the WTA's records and the ATP's draws. Countries are the flag carried at the time, with West Germany counted as Germany, Czechoslovakia as the Czech Republic and British Isles players as Great Britain; Sabalenka, without a flag, counts for no country. Ages are on the day of the final, and other majors come from the four champion lists. See also our methodology. Data collected through November 2, 2026.