U.S. Open women's singles champions

Serena Williams of the U.S. serves to Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic during their quarter-final match at the Rogers Cup tennis tournament in Toronto August 21, 2009.

REUTERS - List of U.S. Open women's singles champions:

2008 Serena Williams (U.S.) beat Jelena Jankovic (Serbia) 6-4

7-5

2007 Justine Henin (Belgium) beat Svetlana Kuznetsova (Russia)

6-1 6-3

2006 Maria Sharapova (Russia) beat Henin 6-4 6-4

2005 Kim Clijsters (Belgium) beat Mary Pierce (France) 6-3 6-1

2004 Kuznetsova beat Elena Dementieva (Russia) 6-3 7-5

2003 Henin beat Clijsters 7-5 6-1

2002 Serena Williams (U.S.) beat Venus Williams (U.S.) 6-4 6-3

2001 Venus Williams (U.S.) beat Serena Williams (U.S.) 6-2 6-4

2000 Venus Williams (U.S.) beat Lindsay Davenport (U.S.) 6-4

7-5

1999 Serena Williams (U.S.) beat Martina Hingis (Switzerland)

6-3 7-6

1998 Davenport beat Hingis 6-3 7-5

1997 Hingis beat Venus Williams 6-0 6-4

1996 Steffi Graf (Germany) beat Monica Seles (U.S.) 7-5 6-4

1995 Graf beat Seles 7-6 0-6 6-3

1994 Arantxa Sanchez Vicario (Spain) beat Graf 1-6 7-6 6-4

1993 Graf beat Helena Sukova (Czech Republic) 6-3 6-3

1992 Monica Seles (Yugoslavia) beat Sanchez-Vicario 6-3 6-3

1991 Seles beat Martina Navratilova (U.S.) 7-6 6-1

1990 Gabriela Sabatini (Argentina) beat Graf 6-2 7-6

1989 Graf beat Navratilova 3-6 7-5 6-1

1988 Graf beat Sabatini 6-3 3-6 6-1

1987 Navratilova beat Graf 7-6 6-1

1986 Navratilova beat Sukova 6-3 6-2

1985 Hana Mandlikova (Czechoslovakia) beat Navratilova 7-6 1-6

7-6

1984 Navratilova beat Chris Evert Lloyd (U.S.) 4-6 6-4 6-4

1983 Navratilova beat Evert Lloyd 6-1 6-3

1982 Evert Lloyd beat Mandlikova 6-3 6-1

1981 Tracy Austin (U.S.) beat Navratilova 1-6 7-6 7-6

1980 Evert-Lloyd beat Mandlikova 5-7 6-1 6-1

1979 Austin beat Evert Lloyd 6-4 6-3

1978 Evert beat Pam Shriver (U.S.) 7-5 6-4

1977 Evert beat Wendy Turnbull (Australia) 7-6 6-2

1976 Evert beat Evonne Goolagong (Australia) 6-3 6-0

1975 Evert beat Goolagong 5-7 6-4 6-2

1974 Billie Jean King (U.S.) beat Goolagong 3-6 6-3 7-5

1973 Margaret Smith Court (Australia) beat Goolagong 7-6 5-7

6-2

1972 King beat Kerry Melville (Australia) 6-3 7-5

1971 King beat Rosemary Casals (U.S.) 6-4 7-6

1970 Smith Court beat Casals 6-2 2-6 6-1

1969 Smith Court beat Nancy Richey (U.S.) 6-2 6-2

1968 Virginia Wade (Britain) beat King 6-4 6-4

1967 King beat Ann Haydon-Jones (Britain) 11-9 6-4

1966 Maria Bueno (Brazil) beat Richey 6-3 6-1

1965 Smith Court beat King 8-6 7-5

1964 Bueno beat Carole Caldwell Graebner (U.S.) 6-1 6-0

1963 Bueno beat Smith Court 7-5 6-4

1962 Smith Court beat Darlene Hard (U.S.) 9-7 6-4

1961 Hard beat Haydon-Jones 6-3 6-4

1960 Hard beat Bueno 6-4 12-10

1959 Bueno beat Christine Truman (Britain) 6-1 6-4

1958 Althea Gibson (U.S.) beat Hard 3-6 6-1 6-2

1957 Gibson beat Louise Brough (U.S.) 6-3 6-2

1956 Shirley Fry (U.S.) beat Gibson 6-3 6-4

1955 Doris Hart (U.S.) beat Patricia Ward (Britain) 6-4 6-2

1954 Hart (U.S.) beat Brough 6-8 6-1 8-6

1953 Maureen Connolly (U.S.) beat Hart 6-2 6-4

1952 Connolly beat Hart 6-3 7-5

1951 Connolly beat Fry 6-3 1-6 6-4

1950 Margaret Osborne duPont (U.S.) beat Hart 6-3 6-3

1949 Osborne duPont beat Hart 6-4 6-1

1948 Osborne duPont beat Brough 4-6 6-4

1947 Brough beat Osborne 8-6 4-6 6-1

1946 Pauline Betz (U.S.) beat Patricia Canning (U.S.) 11-9 6-3

1945 Sarah Palfrey Cooke (U.S.) beat Betz 3-6 8-6 6-4

1944 Betz beat Osborne 6-3 8-6

1943 Betz beat Brough 6-3 5-7 6-3

1942 Betz beat Brough 4-6 6-1 6-4

1941 Palfrey Cooke (U.S.) beat Betz 7-5 6-2

1940 Alice Marble (U.S.) beat Helen Jacobs (U.S.) 6-2 6-3

1939 Marble beat Jacobs 6-0 10-8

1938 Marble beat Wynne 6-0 6-3

1937 Anita Lizane (Chile) beat Jadwiga Jedrzejowska (Poland)

6-4 6-2

1936 Marble (U.S.) beat Jacobs 4-6 6-3 6-2

1935 Helen Jacobs (U.S.) beat Palfrey 6-2 6-4

1934 Jacobs beat Palfrey 6-1 6-4

1933 Jacobs beat Helen Wills Moody 8-6 3-6 3-0

1932 Jacobs beat Caroline Babcock (U.S.) 6-2 6-2

1931 Wills Moody beat Eileen Whittingstall (Britain) 6-4 6-1

1930 Betty Nuthall (Britain) beat Anna McCune Harper (U.S.) 6-1

6-4

1929 Wills beat Phoebe Holcroft Watson (Britain) 6-4 6-2

1928 Wills beat Jacobs 6-2 6-1

1927 Wills beat Betty Nuthall (Britain) 6-1 6-4

1926 Molla Bjurstedt Mallory (U.S.) beat Elizabeth Ryan (U.S.)

4-6 6-4 9-7

1925 Wills beat Kathleen McKane (Britain) 3-6 6-0 6-2

1924 Wills beat Mallory 6-1 6-3

1923 Wills beat Mallory 6-2 6-1

1922 Bjurstedt Mallory beat Wills 6-3 6-1

1921 Bjurstedt Mallory beat Mary Browne (U.S.) 4-6 6-4 6-2

1920 Bjurstedt Mallory beat Marion Zinderstein (U.S.) 6-3 6-1

1919 Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman (U.S.) beat Zinderstein (U.S.)

6-1 6-2

1918 Bjurstedt beat Eleanor Goss(U.S) 6-4 6-3

1917 Bjurstedt beat Marion Vanderhoef (U.S.) 4-6 6-0 6-2

1916 Bjurstedt beat Louise Hammond Raymond (U.S.) 6-0 6-1

1915 Bjurstedt beat Wightman 4-6 6-2 6-0

1914 Browne beat Marie Wagner (U.S.) 6-2 1-6 6-1

1913 Browne beat Dorothy Green (U.S.) 6-2 7-5

1912 Browne beat Eleonora Sears (U.S.) 6-4 6-2