US Open 2024 tennis Arena sabalenka beats Jessica Pula to clinch women's singles title sabalenka defeated home favorite Pula in two close sets to capture her second Grand Slam crown of the year and her third in total Arena sabalenka ground out a 7 to5 7 to5 victory over Jessica Pula to finally get her hands on the US Open title on Saturday the 7th of September the world number two captured her third career Grand slang in the process adding to her 2023 and 2024 Australian Open crowns she is just the fifth woman in the open era to win the US Open and Australian Open in the same year winning the final Point sabalenka dropped to the blue court before blowing kisses at the crowd inside Arthur Ash Stadium Sabal Lanka who came into the contest as the favorite seemed to be battling the demons from her 2023 final defeat to Coco gal at flushing as she squandered a 5-2 lead in the first set that was after Pula had achieved the first break of serve in the match the 26-year-old served four double faults and made numerous unforced errors as Pula fought back to level at 5 to5 she soon regained her form however and withstood gritty resistance from her American opponent to take the next two games and clinch the first set sabalenka raced into a 3 to zero lead in the second second set but then allowed Pula back into the match making her first Grand Slam final appearance aged 30 the sixth seed Ward back to reel off the next five games in succession but pigula