Coco Gauff Cori Dionne "Coco" Gauff (born March 13, 2004) is an American professional tennis player. She has a career-high ranking of world No. 4 in singles, reached on October 24, 2022, and world No. 1 in doubles, achieved on August 15, 2022. Gauff won h ...

defeated

Aryna Sabalenka Aryna Siarhiejeŭna Sabalenka ( be, Арына Сяргееўна Сабаленка; russian: Арина Сергеевна Соболенко, ''Arina Sergeyevna Sobolenko'', born 5 May 1998) is a Belarusian professional tennis player. She ha ...

in the final, 2–6, 6–3, 6–2 to win the women's singles tennis title at the 2023 US Open. It was her first

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singles title. Gauff became the first American teenager to win the title since

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, and one of three teenagers to win the title within five years, following

Bianca Andreescu Bianca Vanessa Andreescu (; born June 16, 2000) is a Canadian professional tennis player. She has a career-high ranking of No. 4 in the world, and is the highest-ranked Canadian in the history of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). Andreescu ...

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and

Emma Raducanu Emma Raducanu (born 13 November 2002) is a British professional tennis player. She reached a career-high ranking of No. 10 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) on 11 July 2022, and is the current British No. 1. Raducanu is the first British ...

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. Sabalenka became the first woman since Williams in

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to reach at least the semifinals of all four majors in a season.

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was the defending champion, but lost to

Jeļena Ostapenko Jeļena Ostapenko (born 8 June 1997), also known as Aļona Ostapenko, is a Latvian professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of world No. 5 in singles, achieved on 19 March 2018, and world No. 9 in doubles, reached on 22 Augus ...

in the fourth round on her fourth straight loss to the Latvian. Her defeat guaranteed a first-time US Open champion. Świątek and Sabalenka were in contention for the WTA No. 1 singles ranking. As a result of Świątek's fourth-round loss, Sabalenka claimed the top ranking at the end of the tournament for the first time in her career. The third round match between

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, ranked No. 623, and

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, ranked No. 433, who were both playing their first majors in more than two years, was the first third round match in any major between two players outside the top 300 in singles rankings, male or female. This was the first major since 2019 US Open in which all eight of the quarterfinalists were seeded.

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made her first US Open quarterfinal on her 15th attempt, an

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record shared with

Nathalie Tauziat Nathalie Tauziat (born 17 October 1967) is a French former professional tennis player. She was the runner-up in women's singles at the 1998 Wimbledon Championships and runner-up in the women's doubles at the 2001 US Open partnering Kimberl ...

. Cîrstea reached her second major quarterfinal 14 years after her first at the

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, second only to

Mirjana Lučić-Baroni Mirjana Lučić-Baroni (; ; born 9 March 1982) is a Croatian former professional tennis player. She enjoyed a meteoric rise on the WTA Tour in the late 1990s, during which she set several "youngest-ever" records. She captured the women's doubles ...

's near 18-year gap between major quarterfinal appearances.

Seeds

Draw

Finals

Top half

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Bottom half

Section 5

Section 6

Section 7

Section 8

Championship match statistics

Seeded players

The following are the seeded players. Seedings are based on WTA rankings as of August 21, 2023. Rankings and points before are as of August 28, 2023.

Other entry information

Wild cards

Source:

Protected ranking

Qualifiers

Lucky losers

Withdrawals

† – not included on entry list
‡ – withdrew from entry list

References

External links

Entry list

Draw
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