An exciting finish for the US Open across all events
By DANIELLE WIRNOWSKI — sports@theaggie.org
The 2025 US Open Tennis Championships, which sees 128 singles players and 64 doubles teams make their way to New York City for a chance to make Grand Slam history, represents a long-term tennis tradition. Just over the span of three weeks, history was made by both the men’s and women’s singles champions.
Aryna Sabalenka, at just 27 years old, has demonstrated outstanding focus and powerful play for a rare repeat at the US Open. She became the first woman to win back-to-back singles titles at the US Open since Serena Williams in 2014.
After seeing unsuccessful finals matches this year at the Australian Open and French Open, Sabalenka earned a major trophy for 2025 at the US Open and fourth overall Grand Slam title in her career.
With only a 45% likelihood of winning the match, according to pre-match odds, against 24-year-old Amanda Anisimova, Sabalenka demonstrated her strength and determination to win the finals in just two sets, with a score of 6-3, 7-6.
Anisimova has come up short in consecutive Grand Slam finals, where earlier this year, she fell to Iga Świątek with set scores of 6-0, 6-0 at Wimbledon. Anisimova’s determination and skill show great promise for the young player’s career.
As for the men’s singles, Carlos Alcaraz defeated Jannik Sinner in the finals match over four sets: 6-2, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4. These two challengers went back and forth across the match, each set bringing the stakes higher and higher.
While the start of the match had Alcaraz at a 56% likelihood of winning the match, according to pre-match odds, the chance only increased across the sets, despite the fact that he lost the second set to Sinner. This set would be the only one that Alcaraz dropped throughout the entire tournament.
This was Alcaraz’s second US Open title and his sixth overall Grand Slam title across his career. This year’s title moved him back up to the No. 1 Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) ranking across the world, putting him in a very strong position heading into 2026 and future tournaments.
Sinner, despite losing the men’s finals, has reached all four major finals in one calendar year — a rare feat — and has won two Grand Slam titles in 2025. It demonstrates a strong determination from the young player, having achieved a remarkable streak.
The US Open also experienced both men’s and women’s wheelchair singles, as it has for the past 20 years when it was first added in 2005.
Yui Kamiji won the women’s singles, taking three sets to defeat Xiaohui Li in the finals match and scoring 0-6, 6-1, 6-3.
Tokito Oda defeated Gustavo Fernández in the men’s singles match with a third-set tie-break. Similar to the wheelchair women’s singles, these players went to three sets with a score of 6-2, 3-6, 7-6.
As for men’s doubles, Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos won their second Grand Slam title in 2025, previously having won at the French Open.
Their final match was both exciting and competitive, as they dropped the first set, rallied in the second set with a tiebreak and then pulled through and clinched their win in the third, and final, set. The final score for their winning match was 3-7, 7-6, 7-5.
Notably, the defending champions from 2024 did not repeat for the title. Max Purcell was suspended from playing, and Jordan Thompson lost within the first round with a new partner.
The women’s doubles match was striking as well. Gabriela Dabrowski and Erin Routliffe, the No. 3 seeds, defeated the No. 1 seeds in straight sets in the final match. Their final score was 6-4, 6-4.
This would be Dabrowski and Routliffe’s second US Open title in just three years. Dabrowski made a personal comeback that was particularly inspiring — having been diagnosed with breast cancer in 2024, she defeated it and recovered within a year, returning to win titles.
The defending women’s champions from 2024, though they played at this year’s US Open, did not play together. They each played with different partners and lost within the first round.
The 2025 US Open demonstrated a new generation of dominance; the spotlight is moving solidly onto the younger players, especially those in their 20s. It also reinforces the importance of consistency, as seen through Sabalenka’s back-to-back wins and Alcaraz’s clean run.
While the US Open was the last Grand Slam in 2025, there are still plenty of other championships left in 2025 for tennis enthusiasts. The upcoming tournament is the ATP Finals from Nov. 9 to 16, located in Turin, Italy, and the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) Finals from Nov. 1 to 8 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This will be the season-ending tournament for the top eight singles players and doubles teams on the ATP and WTA tours.
Written by: Danielle Wirnowski — sports@theaggie.org
