It’s like she’s been a top player for years but hardly anyone had heard of her 4 months ago”. The BBC’s Josh Bennett wrote: “Emma Raducanu is truly astonishing. “This is the most absurd tournament anyone has ever had, let’s be real,” New York Times tennis journalist Ben Rothenberg posted on Twitter. It is little wonder the tennis world had its collective mind blown on Sunday. Raducanu had the fewest Slam starts of any women’s Slam winner, reaching the fourth round in July at Wimbledon in her only prior Slam appearance while Fernandez had won only four matches in six prior Slam appearances. Raducanu is the youngest US Open champion since Williams in 1999 and the first US Open women’s champion not to drop a set since Williams in 2014. She is also the first British woman to win a Grand Slam title since Virginia Wade at Wimbledon in 1977. 150 will now jump into the top 25 of the WTA Tour rankings and has collected the staggering payday of $3.4 million. In just one of several insane records broken, Raducanu is the youngest player to be crowned a grand slam champion since Maria Sharapova in 2004.
“I felt like business as usual, I was just focusing on one point at a time. “When I came on court, I felt completely at home,” she said. The final was the first time teenagers have met in a Grand Slam final since 17-year-old Serena Williams beat Martina Hingis, 18, at the 1999 US Open.ĭespite the enormity of the occasion, Raducanu said during her trophy presentation she was never flustered. In one of the craziest two weeks ever put together by a player in tennis, Raducanu won 20 consecutive sets of tennis, beginning with three wins in qualifying for the main draw. Djokovic also becomes the oldest ever French Open champion at 36 and is now halfway to completing the calendar grand slam - a feat not achieved in men’s tennis since Rod Laver won all four. Nineteen-year-old Fernandez pushed Raducanu further than anyone else this tournament with their match almost reaching the two hour mark. Emma Raducanu collapsed after match point.
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