List of US Open women's singles champions
Year Country Champion Country Runner-up Score
1968 GBR Virginia Wade USA Billie Jean King 6-4 , 6-2
1969 AUS Margaret Court ( 3 ) USA Nancy Richey 6-2 , 6-2
1970 AUS Margaret Court ( 4 ) USA Rosemary Casals 6-2 , 2-6 , 6-1
1971 USA Billie Jean King ( 2 ) USA Rosemary Casals 6-4 , 7-6
1972 USA Billie Jean King ( 3 ) AUS Kerry Melville Reid 6-3 , 7-5
1973 AUS Margaret Court ( 5 ) AUS Evonne Goolagong Cawley 7-6 , 5-7 , 6-2
1974 USA Billie Jean King ( 4 ) AUS Evonne Goolagong Cawley 3-6 , 6-3 , 7-5
1975 USA Chris Evert AUS Evonne Goolagong Cawley 5-7 , 6-4 , 6-2
1976 USA Chris Evert ( 2 ) AUS Evonne Goolagong Cawley 6-3 , 6-0
1977 USA Chris Evert ( 3 ) AUS Wendy Turnbull 7-6 , 6-2
1978 USA Chris Evert ( 4 ) USA Pam Shriver 7-5 , 6-4
1979 USA Tracy Austin USA Chris Evert 6-4 , 6-3
1980 USA Chris Evert ( 5 ) TCH Hana Mandlíková 5-7 , 6-1 , 6-1
1981 USA Tracy Austin ( 2 ) USA Martina Navratilova 1-6 , 7-6 , 7-6
1982 USA Chris Evert ( 6 ) TCH Hana Mandlíková 6-3 , 6-1
1983 USA Martina Navratilova USA Chris Evert 6-1 , 6-3
1984 USA Martina Navratilova ( 2 ) USA Chris Evert 4-6 , 6-4 , 6-4
1985 TCH Hana Mandlíková USA Martina Navratilova 7-6 , 1-6 , 7-6
1986 USA Martina Navratilova ( 3 ) TCH Helena Suková 6-3 , 6-2
1987 USA Martina Navratilova ( 4 ) FRG Steffi Graf 7-6 , 6-1
Finals -- US Open
Billie Jean King is a four-time champion overall and a three-time champion in the open era , and won three in four-year timespan American Chris Evert won an Open Era record four consecutive titles at the US Open between 1975 and 1978 , and a record six overall ( shared with Serena Williams ) with victories in 1980 and 1982 . Steffi Graf is a five-time champion . Serena Williams is a six-time champion , winning these over a fifteen-year period . She shares the Open Era titles record with Chris Evert .
The US Open women's singles championship is an annual tennis event that is being held since 1887 as part of the US Open[a][b] tournament. The tournament is played on outdoor hard courts[c] at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows - Corona Park, New York City. The US Open is played during a two-week period in late August and early September and has been chronologically the last of the four Grand Slam tournaments of the tennis year since 1987. The Philadelphia Cricket Club (1887-1920) and Forest Hills (1921-1977) hosted the event before it settled in 1978 at its current site. The United States Tennis Association is the national body that organizes this event. The champion receives a full-size replica of the event's trophy engraved with her name. In 2016, the winner received prize money of US$3,500,000. A bonus pool of US$1,000,000 is also paid to US Open champions who finished in first place during the US Open Series.