US Open: Emma Raducanu, 18, grew to become the primary qualifier to achieve a girls’s singles Grand Slam last within the Open period. Raducanu now faces unseeded 19-year-old Laylah Fernandez within the last and is but to drop a set within the event. Emma Raducanu is the primary participant to have reached a Grand Slam girls’s singles last after coming by the qualifiers within the Open period. (Reuters Photo)HIGHLIGHTSEmma Raducanu is but to drop a set on the 2021 US OpenShe beat Maria Sakkari 6-1, 6-4 to change into the first qualifier to achieve a girls’s singles Grand Slam last within the Open eraEarlier, unseeded Canadian 19-year-old Laylah Fernandez beat 2nd seed Aryna Sabalenka within the semisBritish teenager Emma Raducanu has arrange an all-teenager US Open girls’s singles last. The 18-year-old Raducanu beat No. 17 seed Maria Sakkari 6-1, 6-4, thus reaching the ultimate with out dropping a set.
Raducanu has thus change into the primary participant to come back by qualifying to achieve a girls’s singles Grand Slam last within the skilled period.On Saturday, she’s going to play Canadian Leylah Fernandez, who turned 19 on Monday.With British tennis royalty Tim Henman and Virginia Wade trying on from the stands, Raducanu fended off seven break factors throughout her first two service video games and capitalized on a trio of double faults from Sakkari on the best way to a 5-0 lead within the first set.Emma Raducanu is the primary qualifier to achieve a Grand Slam girls’s singles last within the Open Era.— US Open Tennis (@usopen) September 10, 2021
Down a break within the second set, Sakkari then fought off 5 break factors in a close to 10-minute seventh recreation however the 18-year-old Raducanu wouldn’t be denied and went on to seal the match to arrange a last towards fellow teen Leylah Fernandez of Canada.If Raducanu wins, she would be the youngest Grand Slam champion since Maria Sharapova received Wimbledon in 2004 on the age of 17.Click right here for IndiaToday.in’s full protection of the coronavirus pandemic.