title: 1946 U.S. National Championships – Women's singles
text: # 1946 U.S. National Championships – Women's singles
  
  First-seeded Pauline Betz defeated fifth-seeded Doris Hart 11–9, 6–3 in the final to win the women's singles tennis title at the 1946 U.S. National Championships.
  
  ## Seeds
  
  The tournament used two lists of players for seeding the women's singles event; one for U.S. players and one for foreign players. Pauline Betz is the champion; others show in brackets the round in which they were eliminated.
  
  * Pauline Betz (champion)
  * Margaret Osborne (quarterfinals)
  * Louise Brough (quarterfinals)
  * Dorothy Bundy (first round)
  * Doris Hart (finalist)
  * Patricia Todd (semifinals)
  * Shirley Fry (first round)
  * Mary Arnold (semifinals)
  * Jean Bostock (third round)
  * Kay Stammers Menzies (third round)
  * Raymonde Jones (first round)
  * Mrs. Pat Adams (first round)
  * Tara Deodhar (first round)
  
  ## Draw
  
  ### Final eight
  
  | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Finals | Finals | Finals | Finals |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Pauline Betz | 6 | 3 | 6 | | | | | | | | |
  | | Gussie Moran | 1 | 6 | 2 | | | | | | | | |
  | | Gussie Moran | 1 | 6 | 2 | 1 | Pauline Betz | 6 | 6 | | | | |
  | | | | | | 6 | Patricia Todd | 2 | 3 | | | | |
  | 6 | Patricia Todd | 6 | 6 | | 6 | Patricia Todd | 2 | 3 | | | | |
  | 3 | Louise Brough | 2 | 2 | | | | | | | | | |
  | 3 | Louise Brough | 2 | 2 | | | | | | 1 | Pauline Betz | 11 | 6 |
  | | | | | | | | | | 5 | Doris Hart | 9 | 3 |
  | 8 | Mary Arnold | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | 5 | Doris Hart | 9 | 3 |
  | | Dorothy Head | 2 | 1 | | | | | | | | | |
  | | Dorothy Head | 2 | 1 | | 8 | Mary Arnold | 3 | 2 | | | | |
  | | | | | | 5 | Doris Hart | 6 | 6 | | | | |
  | 5 | Doris Hart | 6 | 5 | 7 | 5 | Doris Hart | 6 | 6 | | | | |
  | 2 | Margaret Osborne | 4 | 7 | 5 | | | | | | | | |
  