A take a look at some of the ladies to see at the U.S. Open, which begins Sunday, with money-line odds through BetMGM Sportsbook:
Ranked: 1
Country: Belarus
Age: 27
2025 Record: 50-10
FILE - Aryna Sabalenka, of Belarus, poses with the championship prize after defeating Jessica Pegula, of the United States, in the ladies's songs last of the U.S. Open tennis championships, 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 champ in New york city. ... Began her U.S. Open profession by going 5-3 in her very first 3 journeys and is 23-3 ever since, getting to the past 2 finals and the semifinals the 2 years before that. ... Was the runner-up at each of this season ´ s first two Grand Slam competitions, the Australian Open and French Open, then bowed out at Wimbledon in the semifinals. ... Replaced Iga Swiatek at No. 1 late last season.
She Said It: "I imply, I know that I have to go for it. That ´ s the only method it works for me, due to the fact that each time I ´ m trying 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 failing to reach a last anywhere for more than a year and went back to No. 2 in the rankings this week after moving as low as No. 8. ... Those 2 recent titles came on fast surfaces: on lawn at Wimbledon - where she enhanced to 6-0 in Grand Slam finals by winning there for the very first time - and on hard courts at the Cincinnati Open on Monday. ... Her 11 WTA 1000 titles rank second to Serena Williams' 13 given that 2009.
She Said It: "I returned to being my old sort of self."
Read All 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 in the last major.
She Said It: "I definitely found out a great deal of what I would and would refrain from doing 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 up until a year earlier at the U.S. Open, where she upset Swiatek at that phase en route to reaching her first major last. ... Won a title on every surface area in 2025: hard, clay and yard courts. ... Has lost four of her past 6 matches.
She Said It: "I feel very up and down, type of sloppy, which I don ´ t like."
Read All 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, disturbing Swiatek in the semifinals and Sabalenka in the final. ... Best profession minutes have come on 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 went after it, each and every single point. And if I missed it and I simply didn ´ t perform, I could cope with that."
Read All About It: Madison Keys informed herself to be brave on the method 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 2 years ago. ... After 16 months far from the trip, Williams returned to action in July at Washington, winning one match in singles and one in doubles. ... She will be the earliest player to contend in songs at Flushing Meadows because 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 return
Odds Are: Not noted
Howard Fendrich has actually been the AP ´ s tennis writer since 2002. Find his stories here: https://apnews.com/author/howard-fendrich. More AP tennis: https://apnews.com/hub/tennis
