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US Open Tennis Champion’s List

The 2011 US Open is over for another year and what an exciting tournament it was. New York had a very eventful 2 weeks during the tennis tournament that was greeted with Hurricane Irene and then tons of celebrities who arrived for Fashion Week and then on the final day of the open was the 9/11 day of remembrance.

This year gave us new Champions to the Open in Novak Djokovic of Serbia and Samantha Stosur of Australia. Djovak beat last year’s champion Rafael Nadal and on the women’s side, Samantha Stosur beat Serena Williams.

The Open also gave us another Star Spangled Banner highlight for the blooper reel after Cyndi Lauper, the Time after Time singer flubbed it.

Overall, this year brought great competition from past and future Champions and to recognize those who have won the Open before, we have put together a complete list of the Men’s and Women’s Singles Champions.

See you next year!

Year Country Men’s Champion Country Women’s Champion
2011 Serbia Novak Djokovic Australia Samantha Stosur
2010 Spain Rafael Nadal Belgium Kim Clijsters
2009 Argentina Juan Martín del Potro Belgium Kim Clijsters
2008 United States Roger Federer United States Serena Williams
2007 Switzerland Roger Federer Belgium Justine Henin
2006 Switzerland Roger Federer Russia Maria Sharapova
2005 Switzerland Roger Federer Belgium Kim Clijsters
2004 Switzerland Roger Federer Russia Svetlana Kuznetsova
2003 United States Andy Roddick Belgium Justine Henin
2002 United States Pete Sampras United States Serena Williams
2001 Australia Lleyton Hewitt United States Venus Williams
2000 Russia Marat Safin United States Venus Williams
1999 United States Andre Agassi United States Serena Williams
1998 Australia Patrick Rafter United States Lindsay Davenport
1997 Australia Patrick Rafter Switzerland Martina Hingis
1996 United States Pete Sampras United States Lisa Raymond
1995 United States Pete Sampras Germany Steffi Graf
1994 United States Andre Agassi Spain Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
1993 United States Pete Sampras Germany Steffi Graf
1992 Sweden Stefan Edberg Fed. Rep. of Yugoslavia Monica Seleš
1991 Sweden Stefan Edberg Fed. Rep. of Yugoslavia Monica Seleš
1990 United States Pete Sampras Argentina Gabriela Sabatini
1989 Germany Boris Becker Germany Steffi Graf
1988 Sweden Mats Wilander Germany Steffi Graf
1987 Czechoslovakia United States United States Martina Navrátilová
1986 Czechoslovakia Ivan Lendl United States Martina Navrátilová
1985 Czechoslovakia Ivan Lendl Czechoslovakia Hana Mandlíková
1984 United States John McEnroe United States Martina Navrátilová
1983 United States Jimmy Connors United States Martina Navrátilová
1982 United States Jimmy Connors United States Chris Evert
1981 United States John McEnroe United States Tracy Austin
1980 United States John McEnroe United States Chris Evert
1979 United States John McEnroe United States Tracy Austin
1978 United States Jimmy Connors United States Chris Evert
1977 Argentina Guillermo Vilas United States Chris Evert
1976 United States Jimmy Connors United States Chris Evert
1975 Spain Manuel Orantes United States Chris Evert
1973 Australia John Newcombe Australia Margaret Court
1972 Romania Ilie Na(stase United States Billie Jean King
1971 United States Stan Smith United States Billie Jean King
1970 Australia Ken Rosewall Australia Margaret Court
1969 Australia Rod Laver Australia Margaret Court
1968 United States Arthur Ashe United Kingdom Virginia Wade