Angelique Kerber won her second major title of the year and her career after beating Karolina Pliskova in three sets in the US Open women's singles final early on Sunday IST. The second seeded German, who will rise to world No. 1 on Monday, won 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 in a match that lasted two hours and 16 minutes. Kerber had won the Australian Open earlier this year after beating Serena Williams, who she recently displaced as world No. 1, in the final. Kerber thus became the first woman to win both hard-court majors in the same year since Martina Hingis in 1997.

Pliskova, who had beaten both Serena and Venus Williams en route to the final, opened the serving but was broken in the first game of the match itself after a couple of unforced errors. She was then broken in the final game of the set as well, as Kerber took it 6-3. Pliskova fought back in the second set and broke the German, taking the set 6-4. Both players broke each other in a tight third and deciding set, before Pliskova found herself serving to stay alive in the match at 4-5. However, three unforced errors from the Czech handed the match and the title to Kerber.