Rybakina wins the US Open women's singles title, Sun Xinran wins the junior women's singles title

China News Service, New York, September 12. In the 2026 US Open women's singles final held in New York on the 12th local time, the tournament's No. 2 seed and Kazakhstan star Rybakina defeated the top seed and defending champion Sabalenka with a big score of 2:1, winning the US Open women's singles championship for the first time in her career. Chinese teenager Sun Xinran won the US Open junior women's singles championship.

This season, Rybakina and Sabalenka have met three times before, with Rybakina winning 2:1 in the Australian Open women's singles final. In this game, Rybakina took the lead in breaking serve in the fifth game of the first set, and then maintained the lead, winning 6:4. The second set was even more stalemate, with both sides holding serve in the first 11 games. Sabalenka successfully cashed in on the break point in the crucial 12th game and evened the score at 7:5.

In the deciding set, Rybakina took the lead in breaking serve in the third game, and then broke serve in the seventh game, and took advantage of the opportunity to serve to win the game, winning 6:2. This is the third time Rybakina has won the Grand Slam women's singles championship trophy after Wimbledon in 2022 and the Australian Open in 2026. Next week, she will officially reach the top of the women's singles world rankings.

At this US Open, Rybakina entered the women's singles quarterfinals for the first time and eventually won the championship. Rybakina said at the award ceremony: "I didn't expect to achieve such results at this US Open. I had been troubled by some injuries before, but somehow, all the favorable factors just happened to be close to me."

Sabalenka, who has advanced to the US Open women's singles finals for four consecutive years, said after the game that she will learn from this defeat, continue to train hard, improve her level, and hope to win more championships.

In the youth women's singles final, 16-year-old Chinese teenager Sun Xinran defeated Russian player Pushkareva 6:4, 4:6, 6:0 and won her first youth Grand Slam championship trophy.

This season, Sun Xinran reached the finals and finished second in the French Open and Wimbledon junior women's singles competitions. Currently, she ranks first in the International Tennis Federation (ITF) junior women's singles world rankings.

Sun Xinran said that compared with the previous two finals, he was more resilient and adjusted his tactics faster. "This is just the first step. The youth (stage) is almost graduating. Next, I plan to focus on the adult competition." (End)