(ANSA) - NEW YORK, 11 SEPT - The eighteen year old British EmmaRaducanu won the US Open, beating the 19 year old Canadian Leylah Fernandez 6-4, 6-3 in New York. She thus became the first player in the qualifiers to win a GrandeSlam title and also the youngest after the Russian Maria Sharapova, who won Wimbledon at 17 in 2004. The challenge between teenagers definitively highlighted the determination of Emma Raducanu, British of origin. Romanians and Chinese, n.150 in the world rankings, who left no crumbs at these US Open, winning his ten games, including qualifications, for 20 sets to 0. The latest to have achieved such a "perfect" finish at the US Open was Serena Williams in 2014.
Raducanu beat Leilah Fernandez, 19 years old on September 6, n. 73 in the standings who, while not being able to contain the almost same age, showed in the course of the tournament also very compromised situations, to the detriment of bigger opponents, blocking the way to three of the five best players in the world: the Japanese Naomi Osaka (3 / a) last year's winner, the Ukrainian Elina Svitolina (5 / a) then the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka (2 / a).
However, he could not do anything against Raducanu, who was found for the first time among the professionals three years after the defeat against the British in the second round of the Wimbledon junior tournament in 2018. (ANSA).