Qualifier to champion: Britain's Raducanu, 18, wins US Open

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Emma Raducanu, of Britain, holds up the US Open title trophy aft defeating Leylah Fernandez, of Canada, during the women's singles last of the US Open tennis championships, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021, successful New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Posted at 7:00 PM, Sep 11, 2021

and past updated 2021-09-11 20:00:16-04

NEW YORK (AP) — British teen Emma Raducanu has beaten Canadian teen Leylah Fernandez 6-4, 6-3 successful the U.S. Open last to go the archetypal qualifier to triumph a Grand Slam rubric successful the nonrecreational era.

The 18-year-old Raducanu is ranked 150th and needed to triumph 3 matches during preliminary rounds conscionable to get into the main draw.

Saturday's triumph capped a tally successful which she won each 20 sets she played astatine Flushing Meadows.

Raducanu was participating successful lone her 2nd Grand Slam tournament.

This was the archetypal large last betwixt 2 teens since Serena Williams bushed Martina Hingis astatine the 1999 U.S. Open and the archetypal betwixt 2 unseeded women successful the nonrecreational era.

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