Aryna Sabalenka defended her crown at the 2025 US Open by overcoming Amanda Anisimova 6-3, 7-6(3) in Sunday’s final, a result that gave her a second title in New York and her fourth career major. The victory made her the first woman to retain the championship at Flushing Meadows since Serena Williams in 2014. Yet, once the last point was played and the trophy secured, the evening belonged just as much to another champion of a different era.

The tournament marked forty years since Chris Evert lifted her first US Open trophy in 1975. The USTA honored that milestone with an extended tribute after the Sabalenka–Anisimova final, drawing attention away from the present for a moment and back to one of the sport’s most enduring figures. A film recalled Evert’s early triumph over Evonne Goolagong,

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