US Open 2026 Final Results: Every Champion Crowned in Flushing Meadows

The US Open 2026 final results are in, and this year’s tournament delivered plenty of drama, history, and a few genuine surprises. From a changing of the guard at the top of the women’s game to a brand-new mixed doubles pairing lifting their first Grand Slam trophy, Flushing Meadows gave tennis fans a lot to talk about.

This guide breaks down the results from the five biggest events at the 2026 US Open — men’s singles, women’s singles, men’s doubles, women’s doubles, and mixed doubles. At the very end, you’ll also find a complete table listing every champion and runner-up from the 2026 tournament, including the junior and wheelchair events.

Men’s Singles: Zverev Denies Shelton and America’s Long Wait

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The men’s singles final delivered a second Grand Slam title of the season for top seed Alexander Zverev, who outlasted American Ben Shelton, 6-3, 7-6(2), 5-7, 6-2, on Sunday. Shelton had been chasing a piece of history of his own — no American man had won a major since Andy Roddick did it at this very tournament 23 years earlier — but he ultimately came up short against a more experienced finalist who was already carrying a Grand Slam trophy home from Roland Garros earlier in the year.

The numbers heading into the match heavily favored the German. Zverev held a perfect record against Shelton in their previous meetings, with the American managing to take just a single set across all of those encounters, back when they first played in 2024. Zverev had also been almost unbeatable against left-handed opponents since 2023, a trend that suited a matchup built around his forehand against Shelton’s backhand. On top of that, Zverev was walking into his sixth career Grand Slam final — his third of the season alone — while Shelton was making his first appearance on that stage.

That gap in big-match experience showed early. On just the second point of the final, the two traded a heavy baseline rally before Shelton tried to pull Zverev off the court with an angled forehand and then a drop shot; Zverev tracked both down and eventually forced an error at the net, foreshadowing how the rest of the opening set would go. He broke Shelton in that very game and never looked back, breaking again to close out the set. Shelton simply could not find a way into Zverev’s service games — he didn’t win a single point off Zverev’s first serve until the eighth game of the match, a serve that at one point touched 141 miles per hour.

Much like his earlier wins over Carlos Alcaraz and Frances Tiafoe, Shelton grew into the match after dropping the opener, saving a break point for the first time and stringing together his first extended rally of the contest in the second set. He held serve comfortably for most of the set but continued to hand away cheap points at costly moments, falling behind early in a tiebreak that Zverev then closed out by winning the first five points in a row, backed by a serve that touched 147 miles per hour.

The third set finally saw the match tilt Shelton’s way. He earned his first break-point chance of the day, only to see it erased by a Zverev backhand winner, but he kept pushing, winning a string of cat-and-mouse rallies with a pair of crowd-pleasing lobs. As Zverev served to force a third-set tiebreak — a format that had heavily favored him all match — the pressure finally got to him, and two uncharacteristic errors handed Shelton three break points. He needed only two of them, snapping a run of 66 straight service holds from Zverev and forcing a fourth set to a roaring Ashe crowd.

Zverev answered immediately, breaking Shelton’s serve in the very first game of the fourth set and refusing to give the momentum back. A second break followed soon after, and Zverev cruised the rest of the way, dropping just four points on serve for the entire set and sealing the championship with a serve Shelton couldn’t return.

The win caps a remarkable turnaround for a player long associated with the label of best player never to have won a major. Zverev spent years in the shadow of the Big Three, came within two points of a title at the 2020 US Open before watching Daniil Medvedev lift the trophy instead, and later lost finals to both Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner as the sport’s new generation rose. He finally broke through at Roland Garros this past June, and just three months later he has already added a second major to his collection — a huge first serve carrying him through, as he won 85 percent of the points behind it across the match.

Women’s Singles: Rybakina Ends Sabalenka’s Reign

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The biggest story of the tournament so far is the women’s singles final, where second seed Elena Rybakina defeated two-time defending champion Aryna Sabalenka in a gripping three-set battle, 6-4, 5-7, 6-2. It was Rybakina’s first US Open title and a result that instantly reshaped the sport’s landscape, since her run through the tournament also lifted her to the world No. 1 ranking for the very first time.

The match, played under bright September sunshine on Arthur Ashe Stadium, was billed as a heavyweight clash between two of the sport’s biggest hitters, and it lived up to the hype. Both women are known for dominating from the baseline, and early on it was Rybakina who found her rhythm first, breaking Sabalenka’s serve to move ahead 3-2. Sabalenka, clearly frustrated, smacked a ball high into the air and picked up a code violation for ball abuse — a sign of the fiery emotions that had followed her throughout the two weeks.

Despite the outburst, Sabalenka steadied herself and held serve cleanly, even producing an ace. For a stretch, she looked sharp and error-free. But Rybakina kept applying pressure, eventually pushing her lead to 5-4. She wasted her first chance to close out the set but converted the next one to take it 6-4.

Where Sabalenka has often been the player forcing opponents into defensive scrambles, this final saw the roles reversed. Rybakina matched her power shot for shot while also mixing in smart, patient tennis. Her calm body language stood in sharp contrast to Sabalenka’s visible frustration — there were no fist pumps or angry shouts from Rybakina, just steady focus.

The second set flipped the momentum. Sabalenka’s level rose even as her mood stayed tense, and with the set tied at 5-5, she began taking bigger risks, charging the net and going for lines even when not perfectly positioned to do so. She survived three break points to move ahead 6-5, then broke Rybakina’s serve on the very next game to steal the second set, 7-5, and force a decider.

The third set followed a pattern that had worked well for Rybakina all match: an early break that she never gave back. She jumped out to a 2-1 lead and kept Sabalenka under constant pressure with her superior patience in longer rallies. Sabalenka, by contrast, struggled to sustain extended exchanges without making a costly error. A key moment came with Sabalenka serving at 2-4 — she was pulled wide by an angled shot, popped up a short ball, and Rybakina pounced with a clean volley winner at the net to move to within two games of the title.

Serving for the match at 5-2, Rybakina double-faulted away her first championship point but calmly followed it up with an ace to seal the win. In her on-court interview, an emotional Rybakina praised Sabalenka’s fight, saying she had to dive for balls just to stay competitive, and spoke warmly about her growing connection with New York and the tournament.

This result carries huge significance beyond the trophy itself. Sabalenka had won a major title every year since 2023, and the 2026 US Open represented her last shot at extending that streak this season. Rybakina, meanwhile, becomes only the sixth woman since 1988 to win both hardcourt majors — the Australian Open and the US Open — in the same season, joining a short and elite list of players to manage the feat. It was also the first time since 2013 that the tournament’s top two seeds met in the women’s singles final.

Women’s Doubles: Townsend and Siniakova Complete the Set

In one of the most emotional results of the fortnight, top seeds Taylor Townsend and Katerina Siniakova won the women’s doubles title, coming back to beat Ashlyn Krueger and Robin Montgomery, 5-7, 6-0, 6-2. For Townsend, a Chicago native and former world No. 1 junior, it was the missing piece in a career that had already included several near-misses at her home Grand Slam. She had reached the final in 2025 with Siniakova, lost another final back in 2022, and made two semifinal runs in previous years — finally breaking through in 2026.

The final did not start smoothly for the top seeds. Both players looked tight in the opening exchanges, getting broken early and even suffering a mix-up where a makeable ball dropped untouched between them. Krueger and Montgomery, the less experienced pair, capitalized and looked ready to cause an upset.

But Townsend and Siniakova soon settled down and began playing like the top-ranked doubles team in the world, ripping off a long stretch of consecutive points to level the set at 4-4. They created two break points that would have let them serve for the set, but Krueger and Montgomery saved both, helped by strong serving and sharp net play. That resilience paid off when Siniakova struggled on serve at 5-6, double-faulting several times to hand the opening set to the underdogs.

Any momentum for Krueger and Montgomery disappeared almost immediately in the second set. Townsend and Siniakova went on another dominant run, racing to a double break inside 15 minutes and playing near-flawless tennis to level the match at one set apiece, limiting their opponents to just a handful of points in the entire set.

The third set turned into a true fight. Montgomery held off an early break point and served her way to a hold with an ace, briefly slowing the top seeds’ momentum. Krueger then survived a marathon service game filled with deuces, saving five chances to be broken before finally losing her serve. The final game was just as tense, with Siniakova again double-faulting while trying to close out the match, but the No. 1 pair fought off five break points before sealing the championship on their first match point.

With the win, Townsend becomes the first American woman to win the US Open women’s doubles title since 2018, while Siniakova adds a second career doubles Grand Slam to her résumé, having also achieved the feat earlier in her career with a different partner.

Men’s Doubles: Harrison and Skupski Take the Title

The men’s doubles final belonged to No. 5 seeds Christian Harrison, of the United States, and British partner Neal Skupski, who beat No. 6 seeds Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz of Germany, 6-4, 7-6(6), to win their first title together at Flushing Meadows. Speaking to the crowd inside Arthur Ashe Stadium afterward, Harrison thanked the fans for their support during the match and looked back on a strong season that has now brought him two Grand Slam trophies.

This was only the second time the two pairs had ever met. Their first meeting came earlier in the year at an event in Adelaide, where Krawietz and Puetz won a tight three-set match tiebreak. At that point, Harrison and Skupski had barely started playing together — it was just their second tournament as a team — yet a few weeks later they went on to win the Australian Open, foreshadowing the season they’d go on to have.

The path each team took to the US Open final looked very different. Harrison and Skupski were nearly untouchable throughout the tournament, moving through every round without dropping a single set. Krawietz and Puetz, by contrast, needed three sets on multiple occasions and had already played through seven tiebreaks before the final, including a tough semifinal win over three-time champions Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury — the only match on their run that didn’t require a breaker of its own.

The final followed a similar script to much of the German pair’s tournament. In the second set, Krawietz and Puetz leaned heavily on their first serve, barely attempting second serves through the first seven games and winning the large majority of points when they landed their first ball in. Serving to move ahead 5-4, Krawietz found himself under more pressure as Harrison and Skupski began reading his returns better, though the Germans managed to save a break point and hold. With neither side able to find a breakthrough on serve, the set rolled into a tiebreak — the eighth of the tournament for Krawietz and Puetz.

The tiebreak stayed tense, with both teams unexpectedly finding success on return rather than serve. At 6-5, facing a set point against him, Puetz sent a return from Skupski into the net, then followed it up with a mis-hit forehand on his own service point. That handed Harrison a match point on serve, and Skupski finished things off with a put-away volley at the net to seal the championship.

Overall, the final was a tight, low-error affair — across the entire match, the two teams combined for only three break-point chances, and Harrison and Skupski managed to convert just one of them.

The win completes an undefeated season for Harrison and Skupski at the two hard-court majors in 2026. For Harrison, it marks his second Grand Slam doubles title of the year and makes him the first American to win the US Open men’s doubles crown since Ram’s third consecutive title in 2023; he’ll also break into the world’s top 10 for the first time, moving up to No. 4, while Skupski rises to No. 3. For Skupski, the title arrives after two previous runner-up finishes in New York — in 2025 alongside Salisbury, and in 2022 with Wesley Koolhof. At 36, he now needs only a French Open trophy to complete a career Grand Slam, having already won Wimbledon with Koolhof back in 2023. Reflecting on those earlier losses during the trophy ceremony, Skupski admitted that giving the winner’s speech feels a lot easier than the ones he had to give after coming up short.

Mixed Doubles: A New Czech Combination Shines

The mixed doubles event produced one of the tournament’s feel-good stories, as Karolina Muchova and Jakub Mensik, playing together for the first time, won the title by defeating Belinda Bencic and Flavio Cobolli, 6-3, 1-6, [10-6]. The all-Czech pairing had to work hard to even reach the final, saving two match points in a tense semifinal tiebreak against Mirra Andreeva and Andrey Rublev before turning things around in the closing stages.

In the final itself, the Czechs took the first set comfortably before Bencic and Cobolli hit back to level the match by winning the second set at a canter. That set up a deciding match tiebreak, where Muchova and Mensik pulled away from an early 1-1 tie, eventually sealing the championship on their third match point with a Mensik ace.

Both players were winning their first Grand Slam title in any category. Mensik, only 20 years old, has enjoyed a strong summer overall, having reached his first major singles semifinal at Roland Garros earlier in the year. For Muchova, the win offered a happy contrast to a heartbreaking three-set loss in the Wimbledon singles final just weeks earlier — this time, sharing the court with a fellow Czech ended in celebration rather than heartbreak.

Why the 2026 US Open Matters

Taken together, these results make the 2026 US Open one of the more historically significant editions of the tournament in recent memory. The women’s singles final produced a new world No. 1, ended a two-year title streak, and marked a rare meeting of the top two seeds in the final. The men’s singles final gave Alexander Zverev a second major of the season and finally shed the “best never to win a Slam” label that had followed him for years, while denying Ben Shelton a shot at ending America’s long wait for a men’s champion. The doubles events, meanwhile, delivered breakthrough moments for established stars like Townsend and Skupski and fresh success for a brand-new mixed doubles pairing.

Complete Table of 2026 US Open Champions and Runners-Up

Event	Champion(s)	Runner(s)-Up	Final Score
Men’s Singles	Alexander Zverev	Ben Shelton	6-3, 7-6(2), 5-7, 6-2
Women’s Singles	Elena Rybakina	Aryna Sabalenka	6-4, 5-7, 6-2
Men’s Doubles	Christian Harrison / Neal Skupski	Kevin Krawietz / Tim Puetz	6-4, 7-6(6)
Women’s Doubles	Taylor Townsend / Katerina Siniakova	Ashlyn Krueger / Robin Montgomery	5-7, 6-0, 6-2
Mixed Doubles	Karolina Muchova / Jakub Mensik	Belinda Bencic / Flavio Cobolli	6-3, 1-6, [10-6]
Boys’ Singles	Marcel Latak	Guto Miguel	3-6, 7-5, 7-6(13)
Girls’ Singles	Sun Xinran	Anna Pushkareva	6-4, 4-6, 6-0
Boys’ Doubles	Aaron Gabet / Valentin Gonzalez-Galino	Marcel Latak / Tanishk Konduri	7-6(5), 2-6, [11-9]
Girls’ Doubles	Annika Penickova / Kristina Penickova	Polina Berezina / Alisa Terentyeva	7-6(11), 6-3
Men’s Wheelchair Singles	Alfie Hewett	Tokito Oda	6-0, 7-6(5)
Men’s Wheelchair Doubles	Alfie Hewett / Gordon Reid	Martin De la Puente / Ruben Spaargaren	2-6, 6-3, [10-7]
Women’s Wheelchair Singles	Yui Kamiji	Diede De Groot	6-2, 1-6, 6-3
Women’s Wheelchair Doubles	Yui Kamiji / Zhu Zhenzhen	Guo Luoyao / Momoko Ohtani	6-1, 6-2
Quad Wheelchair Singles	Niels Vink	Sam Schroder	6-2, 7-5
Quad Wheelchair Doubles	Sam Schroder / Jin Woodman	Guy Sasson / Niels Vink	6-2, 2-6, [10-7]
Boys’ Wheelchair Singles	Matthew Knoesen	Sonny Rennison	6-0, 6-2
Girls’ Wheelchair Singles	Seira Matsuoka	Luna Gryp	7-6(3), 6-3
Boys’ Wheelchair Doubles	Matthew Knoesen / Hirofumi Inoue	Will Barton / Lorenzo Politano	6-1, 6-0
Girls’ Wheelchair Doubles	Paula Michelle Lopez Meza / Seira Matsuoka	Emma Gjerseth / Lucy Heald	6-4, 6-3