Serena Williams is currently tied with Chris Evert for both the Open Era total of US Open trophies (six) and US Open match victories (101). A win in the final would put her out in front on her own in both statistics.
Bianca Andreescu will be the 17th different Grand Slam final opponent Serena Williams has faced in her career. Of those, Williams has a losing record against four (0-1 to Samantha Stosur, Naomi Osaka and Simona Halep, 1-2 to Angelique Kerber), a tied record of 1-1 against Garbiñe Muguruza and a winning record over the remaining 12 (7-2 over Venus Williams, 3-1 over Maria Sharapova, 2-0 over Victoria Azarenka and 1-0 over Martina Hingis, Lindsay Davenport, Jelena Jankovic, Dinara Safina, Justine Henin, Vera Zvonareva, Agnieszka Radwanska, Caroline Wozniacki and Lucie Safarova).
Bianca Andreescu is just the third player in the Open Era to advance to the US Open final on her tournament debut, following Pam Shriver (runner-up to Chris Evert in 1978) and Venus Williams (runner-up to Martina Hingis in 1997). Only three players in the Open Era have lifted a major trophy on their first appearance in the tournament: Evonne Goolagong Cawley at Roland Garros 1971, Barbara Jordan at the 1976 Australian Open and Monica Seles at the 1991 Australian Open.
Bianca Andreescu is yet to lose to a Top 10 player, having started her career with a perfect 7-0 record against them. By comparison, in their first seven matches against Top 10 opposition, Serena Williams, Monica Seles and Jennifer Capriati all went 4-3; Kim Clijsters went 3-4; Stefanie Graf, Martina Hingis, Garbiñe Muguruza and Jelena Ostapenko all went 2-5; Venus Williams, Lindsay Davenport, Victoria Azarenka and Simona Halep all went 1-6; and Justine Henin, Maria Sharapova and Angelique Kerber all went 0-7.
Bianca Andreescu is the first player born in the 2000s to reach a major final, and is bidding to become the fourth player born in 1996 or later to become a Grand Slam champion. Like the previous three - Jelena Ostapenko, Naomi Osaka and Ashleigh Barty - Andreescu would be lifting a major trophy on her first appearance in the last four of a Slam. This phenomenon has happened three times in the past three years; in the prior 30 years, it only happened seven times (Arantxa Sánchez Vicario at Roland Garros 1989, Iva Majoli at Roland Garros 1997, Serena Williams at the US Open 1999, Anastasia Myskina at Roland Garros 2004, Maria Sharapova at Wimbledon 2004, Svetlana Kuznetsova at the US Open 2004 and Francesca Schiavone at Roland Garros 2010).
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2019-09-06 08:29:38Z
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