Emma Raducanu, 18, goes from qualifier to champion at US Open with 6-4, 6-3 victory over Leylah Fernandez
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By Aug 25, 2025Emma Raducanu, 18, goes from qualifier to champion at US Open with 6-4, 6-3 victory over Leylah Fernandez
The first British woman to win a Grand Slam title since Virginia Wade in 1977, Raducanu didn't lose a single set of the 20 she played at Flushing Meadows.
Published Sep 11, 2021
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Leylah Fernandez beat the No. 2, 3 and 5 seeds, but this qualifier was too much to overcome.
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![“When you’re kind of poking around this idea [of Fan Week], and obviously Covid puts a halt on it, but when you have initiatives like this and then all of a sudden—you talk about your marketing team being the best in the business? Why don’t we throw in the first qualifier to ever win the US Open so you actually go to fan week every week thinking you might see the eventual winner? And you can’t say we’re full of shit because it is a possibility and it has happened," Roddick said on the show.](https://images.tennis.com/image/private/t_16-9_768/f_auto/tenniscom-prd/pilnrmgfcofhmdes8eup.jpg)
“When you’re kind of poking around this idea [of Fan Week], and obviously Covid puts a halt on it, but when you have initiatives like this and then all of a sudden—you talk about your marketing team being the best in the business? Why don’t we throw in the first qualifier to ever win the US Open so you actually go to fan week every week thinking you might see the eventual winner? And you can’t say we’re full of shit because it is a possibility and it has happened," Roddick said on the show.
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