3 winners and 2 losers on the WTA tour following the US Open

Aryna Sabalenka won the third Grand Slam of her career by winning the US Open. The victory was also her second major title of 2024. She began the year by being victorious at the Australian Open for the second straight year.

Still, the Belarusian is not among the winners from the US Open. She won another major, true, but her ranking did not change. She still trails No. 1 Iga Swiatek by over 2,000 points.

Among the winners and losers from the US Open are four Americans. Only two are winners, however. American tennis might be making a comeback on the men's side, but American women have always held their own.

WTA winners and losers from the 2024 US Open

Winner: Jessica Pegula

Pegula seemed almost done being a top player after she changed coaches and was seeing diminishing results on the tour. Plus, the knock on her was that she was more a jack of all trades than a master of any of them. This once again proved to be incorrect as Pegula has a very good forehand, enough to defeat most players on tour.

After getting to the final of the US Open, she moves up to No. 3 on the WTA tour. That matches a career high. How long she can sustain her recent success remains to be seen.

Loser: Coco Gauff

Gauff has had a bad summer. She won last year's US Open and won several events in the lead-up to the Grand Slam. This year? Gauff has missed making the quarterfinals of every event since the ecotrans Ladies Open in June (she was bounced out of the round of 16 in New York by Emma Navarro). Now she is ranked outside the top five with a lot of work to do this fall.

Winner: Paula Badosa

After greatly struggling through May to begin 2024, appearing possibly closer to retirement with a constant back issue than getting back to playing elite tennis, Badosa has seen a huge uptick in form. She won the Citi Open in August and made the semifinals in Cincinnati. She made the quarterfinals in New York and will move up nine spots to No. 20.

Loser: Madison Keys

Keys has had one good month this year and that was in May. That helped her jump to No. 14 on the WTA tour but she did not seem like a top-15 player. She has been inconsistent in every other part of the year. After reaching the semifinals at the US Open in 2023, her third-round loss in 2024 will cause her to plummet outside the top 20 on the tour.

Winner: Emma Navarro

Navarro is only 23 years old though she seemed to come a bit out of nowhere this year. She reached a handful of quarterfinals or semis in 2023, but her ranking was only No. 32. That was just a prelude to this year where she won her first title and made her first major final in New York. She now ranks No. 8, a career high, with the possibility to move higher by the end of the year.

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