Emma Raducanu new US Open tennis champion, didn't drop a single set in tournament
New York: British tennis player Emma Raducanu, the 18-year-old, defeated Leylah Fernandez 6-4, 6-3 in straight sets to win the US Open Tennis 2021 finals on Sunday.
Emma will take home the US Open trophy, and a winner's cheque of $2.5m - or £1.8m. This is the first Grand Slam win for Emma Raducanu.
In the final, she defeated 19-year-old Leylah Fernandez to become the first British woman to win a major singles title since Virginia Wade at Wimbledon in 1977. Emma did so without losing a set throughout the tournament.
Ranked No. 338 in the world, she reached the fourth round on her major debut with a wildcard into the main draw for the 2021 Wimbledon Championships. This helped her to access the qualifying competition for the 2021 US Open in August; after qualifying for the main draw, she went on to become the first qualifier, male or female, to reach and win a major single final.
With the Grand Slam win, Emma created many records to her profile. She became..
- The first British female winner at Flushing Meadows since Virginia Wade in 1968
- The first qualifier in the Open era to win a Slam
- The youngest women's Slam champion since Maria Sharapova at Wimbledon in 2004
- The youngest Briton to win a Grand Slam title
- The first woman to win the US Open without dropping a set since Serena Williams in 2014
