Tennis-U.S. Open women's singles champions

Sept 7 (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
(Compiled by Pritha Sarkar; Editing by Mark Lamport-Stokes)