A champion will be crowned on Saturday in New York. The top two seeds in the women’s draw — and top two players in the world — battle it out at Arthur Ashe Stadium looking to earn a grand slam title. No. 1 seed Aryna Sabalenka takes on No. 2 seed Elena Rybakina in the championship match.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sabalenka is looking for her third straight US Open title after mowing down the competition. She has dropped just one set in the tournament — in the quarterfinals against Linda Noskova where it was pushed to a third set tiebreak — and the rest of the sets haven’t been particularly close.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rybakina, meanwhile, has been pushed to three sets in her last two matches — against Coco Gauff and Qinwen Zheng. The two have met a remarkable 17 times in their careers with Sabalenka holding a slight edge at 10-7. They’ve met three times this season with Sabalenka taking two of those, but Rybakina taking the most important one: the Australian Open final.<\/p>\n
There’s also an interesting subplot to this match with Rybakina set to take over the world No. 1 ranking at the end of the tournament. Sabalenka has held that spot for 99 straight weeks, but no grand slam wins in the first three saw her slip down a bit in the overall points.<\/p>\n
Keep it locked here over the next two weeks for our complete coverage of the 2026 US Open.<\/p>\n