An appearance at a few of the women to see at the U.S. Open, which starts Sunday, with money-line odds by means of BetMGM Sportsbook:
Ranked: 1
Country: Belarus
Age: 27
2025 Record: 50-10
FILE - Aryna Sabalenka, of Belarus, poses with the championship trophy after beating Jessica Pegula, of the United States, in the women's songs last of the U.S. Open tennis champions, Sept. 7, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)
Career Titles: 20
Grand Slam Titles: 3 - U.S. Open (1: 2024), Australian Open (2: 2023, 2024)
Last 5 U.S. Opens: 2024-Won Championship, 2023-Runner-Up, 2022-Lost in Semifinals, 2021-SF, 2020-2nd Round
Aces: Was in 2015's champion in New York. ... Began her U.S. Open career by going 5-3 in her very first 3 trips and is 23-3 because then, getting to the previous 2 finals and the semifinals the 2 years before that. ... Was the runner-up at each of this season ´ s first 2 Grand Slam competitions, the Australian Open and French Open, then bailed out at Wimbledon in the semifinals. ... Replaced Iga Swiatek at No. 1 late last season.
She Said It: "I mean, I understand that I have to go for it. That ´ s the only way it works for me, due to the fact that every time I ´ m attempting to play much safer ... I stop my arms, and the ball flies in the stands."
Read All About It: Aryna Sabalenka beat Jessica Pegula in the 2024 U.S. Open last
Odds Are: +300
Ranked: 2
Country: Poland
Age: 24
2025 Record: 49-12
Career Titles: 24
Grand Slam Titles: 6 - U.S. Open (1: 2022), French Open (4: 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024), Wimbledon (1: 2025)
Last 5 U.S. Opens: 2024-QF, 2023-4th, 2022-W, 2021-4th, 2020-3rd
Aces: Has won 2 of her past three tournaments after stopping working to reach a final anywhere for more than a year and went back to No. 2 in the rankings today after moving as low as No. 8. ... Those 2 recent titles began fast surfaces: on yard at Wimbledon - where she improved to 6-0 in Grand Slam finals by winning there for the very first time - and on difficult courts at the Cincinnati Open on Monday. ... Her 11 WTA 1000 titles rank 2nd to Serena Williams' 13 given that 2009.
She Said It: "I returned to being my old sort of self."
Read Everything about It: Iga Swiatek won Wimbledon after a hard year
Odds Are: +275
Ranked: 3
Career-Best Ranking: 2
Age: 21
2025 Record: 35-12
2025 Titles: 1
Grand Slam Titles: 2 - U.S. Open (2023 ), French Open (2025 )
Last 5 U.S. Opens: 2024-4th, 2023-W, 2022-QF, 2021-2nd, 2020-1st
Aces: Earned her 2nd Grand Slam title at the French Open on red clay. The first came at the U.S. Open in 2023 while she was still a teenager. ... Last year's title defense at Flushing Meadows ended with a fourth-round loss to American Emma Navarro; Gauff double-faulted 19 times in that defeat. ... Gauff is coming off a first-round exit at Wimbledon in the last major.
She Said It: "I absolutely found out a great deal of what I would and would not do once again."
Read All About It: Coco Gauff went from French Open champion to a quick Wimbledon exit
Odds Are: +600
Ranked: 4
Career-Best Ranking: 3
Age: 31
2025 Record: 37-16
2025 Titles: 3
Career Titles: 9
Grand Slam Titles: Zero - Best: Runner-Up, U.S. Open (2024 )
Last 5 US Opens: 2024-Runner-Up, 2023-4th, 2022-QF, 2021-3rd, 2020-3rd
Aces: Had been 0-6 for her profession in Grand Slam quarterfinals till a year ago at the U.S. Open, where she distressed Swiatek at that phase en path to reaching her first significant last. ... Won a title on every surface area in 2025: hard, clay and turf courts. ... Has lost four of her past 6 matches.
She Said It: "I feel extremely up and down, kind of careless, which I don ´ t like."
Read Everything about It: Jessica Pegula beat Iga Swiatek at the 2024 U.S. Open
Odds Are: +1800
Ranked: 6
Career-Best Ranking: 5
Age: 30
2025 Record: 37-12
2025 Titles: 2
Career Titles: 10
Grand Slam Titles: 1 - Australian Open (2025 )
Last 5 US Opens: 2024-3rd, 2023-SF, 2022-3rd, 2021-1st, 2020-3rd
Aces: Captured her first Grand Slam title at the Australian Open in January, upsetting Swiatek in the semifinals and Sabalenka in the last. ... Best profession moments have actually begun difficult courts, consisting of a runner-up revealing at the U.S. Open in 2017 and reaching the semifinals at Flushing Meadows two other times, in 2018 and 2023.
She Said It: "I pursued it, every single point. And if I missed it and I just didn ´ t perform, I might deal with that."
Read Everything about It: Madison Keys told herself to be brave en route to winning the Australian Open
Odds Are: +1200
Ranked: 610
Career-Best Ranking: 1
Country: United States
Age: 45
2025 Record: 1-2
2025 Titles: Zero
Career Titles: 49
Grand Slam Titles: 7 - U.S. Open (2: 2000, 2001), Wimbledon (5: 2000, 2001, 2005, 2007, 2008)
Last 5 U.S. Opens: 2024-Did Not Play, 2023-1st, 2022-1st, 2021-DNP, 2020-1st
Aces: Hasn't dipped into a Grand Slam tournament given that the U.S. Open two years ago. ... After 16 months away from the tour, Williams went back to action in July at Washington, winning one match in songs and one in doubles. ... She will be the earliest player to complete in songs at Flushing Meadows given that 1981.
She Said It: "Just to be here at all is really a true blessing, and then to play well is just another blessing."
Read All About It: A take a look at Venus Williams' profession and comeback
Odds Are: Not listed
Howard Fendrich has been the AP ´ s tennis author because 2002. Find his stories here: https://apnews.com/author/howard-fendrich. More AP tennis: https://apnews.com/hub/tennis
