Photos from Flushing Meadows: The Finals

Last but not least, scenes from the championship matches in men's and women's singles and doubles. For more of Anita Aguilar's pictures from the 2014 U.S. Open, along with Steve Tignor's captions, click here.

Flavia Pennetta encourages partner Martina Hingis in the women’s doubles final.

Flavia hearts New York. She also reached the quarters of the singles.

In the title match, though, Russians Elena Vesnina and Ekaterina Makarova were too good—and too fired up.

Makarova went Pennetta two better, reaching the semis of the singles and winning the doubles.

Things got tense in the three-set match, but it was all smiles—or mostly smiles—at the end.

Makarova and Vesnina, who eliminated Venus and Serena Williams, won their third Grand Slam title together.

The next day Bob and Mike Bryan won their 100th, and sixth U.S. Open.

This time they beat Marc Lopez and Marcel Granollers of Spain in the final.

Lopez read his runner-up speech in English.

Now it was time for the main attraction, Serena Williams.

Serena said she was a little nervous to start her final against Caroline Wozniacki.

But she was determined to win her 18th major title.

Serena’s mother, Oracene, was there for her first, on this court, in 1999. This time she came in matching leopard print.

Serena poised to hit her serve; once again, that shot helped her through.

Williams didn’t lose more than three games in any of the 14 sets she played.

Caroline Wozniacki, one of the surprises and stories of the tournament, was in her shadow all day.

“Please hold off on tossing me that ball for one second while I...”

1971 U.S. Open champion Stan Smith, looking sharp in his—what else?—Stan Smiths, came out for the coin toss before the men’s final.

There he met this year’s unlikely finalists, Kei Nishikori and Marin Cilic.

Like Serena, it was all about the serve for Cilic.

He hit 49 aces in his last three matches.

And he had Nishikori on the run all evening.

Kei, who admitted to nerves and had a played a lot of tennis, was a step slow.

All Nishikori’s coach, Michael Chang (center), could do was look on grimly.

Cilic, with coach Goran Ivanisevic, has taken a more assertive stance on court.

Still, Nishikori grabbed the world’s attention this week; the New York crowd was ready to back him.

But Cilic snuffed out any hopes.

Ivanisevic, not surprisingly, didn’t try to play it cool in the player’s box.

The 14th seed, who has never been to a Slam final, a Masters semifinal, or won a 500 event, was the new U.S. Open champion.

He celebrated accordingly.

“This was the best I’ve ever played,” he said of his Open run.

Cilic was done in less than two hours, before the sun set.

Sometimes nice guys can finish first.