Which British tennis players have won the US Open?

Set at the world-famous Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, New York, the US Open is the fourth and final Grand Slam of the tennis calendar.

Founded in 1881, the tournament has a rich history of champions from across the globe, including Great Britain.

Here, we break down all the British title winners at the US Open during the Open Era, including singles, doubles and wheelchair tennis.

British US Open singles champions

Three British players have won singles titles at the US Open in the Open Era – Virginia Wade, Andy Murray and Emma Raducanu.

For all three British players, the US Open was the first Grand Slam title of their careers.

Wade was the first women’s singles US Open champion of the Open Era, lifting the title back in 1978.

Having come in as the sixth seed, Wade defeated fellow British star Ann Jones in the semi-finals before going on to win 6-4, 6-2 against top seed Billie Jean King in the final.

Great Britain had to wait until 1997 for its next US Open finalist, with Greg Rusedski losing out to Patrick Rafter in the final 6-3, 6-2, 4-6, 7-5.

In 2008, a then 21-year-old Murray reached his first Grand Slam final before losing out to Roger Federer for the Swiss star’s fifth straight US Open title.

Four years later and off the back of his 2012 Olympic gold medal in London, Murray went on to win his first major trophy at the US Open. He beat Serbia’s Novak Djokovic 7-6(10), 7-5, 2-6, 3-6, 6-2 in one of the all-time classic finals.

Raducanu made history in 2021 as the first qualifier to ever win a Grand Slam title during a fairytale campaign at the US Open.

The 18-year-old overcame fellow teenager Leylah Fernandez in the final 6-4, 6-3 to become the youngest Brit to win a major and the first woman to win the US Open without dropping a set since Serena Williams in 2014. 

British US Open doubles champions

Great Britain has enjoyed several doubles titles at the US Open during the Open Era, especially in recent years.

Joe Salisbury has been the most successful British doubles player at the US Open, with a record three consecutive men’s doubles titles with Rajeev Ram between 2021-2023, as well as a mixed doubles trophy with Desirae Krawczyk in 2021. Salisbury also reached the final with fellow Brit Neal Skupski in 2025.

Jamie Murray won his second of two career Grand Slam men’s doubles titles at the US Open in 2016 with Bruno Soares, and also made finals in 2015 and 2021.

Murray also combined with Martina Hingis and Bethanie Mattek Sands to win three straight mixed doubles titles from 2017-2019.

Roger Taylor won back-to-back US Open men’s doubles titles at the US Open in 1971 with Australian John Newcombe and in 1972 with Cliff Drysdale.

As well as her singles triumph, Wade also lifted two women’s doubles trophies in 1973 and 1975 – both with Margaret Court. She reached a total of six US Open women’s doubles finals in her career.

Britain’s Anne Hobbs also featured as a finalist in 1984 with Wendy Turnbull.

Wheelchair

Great Britain has had singles and doubles champions in every wheelchair tennis discipline at the US Open.

Alfie Hewett leads the way as a four-time men’s singles and five-time men’s doubles champion. His five straight doubles trophies with Gordon Reid are the most dominant stretch across all the doubles events in New York.

Reid also won the men’s doubles title in 2016 with Stephane Houdet, making him a six-time champion.

Jordanne Whiley clinched her first and only singles title in 2015, and won two doubles titles in 2014 and 2020 with Japan’s Yui Kamiji.

Peter Norfolk won the first quad singles title in 2007 and backed it up with another trophy-winning run in 2009.

He was followed by Andy Lapthorne – a quad singles winner in 2014 and 2019, as well as four straight doubles victories between 2017 and 2020 with David Wagner and Dylan Alcott.