Emma Raducanu On-Court Interview | US Open 2021 Final
An almost speechless Emma Raducanu gives her post-match speech after beating Leylah Fernandez in the final of the 2021 US Open.
Emma Raducanu, the 18-year-old who began her campaign in qualifying as the world number 150, is the US Open champion having stormed through the tournament without dropping a set.
The teenager is the first British woman to win a Grand Slam singles title since Virginia Wade's Wimbledon triumph in 1977, some 44 years ago. Come Monday she will be the new British number one.
She is also the first qualifier, man or woman, to ever win a Grand Slam.
It has been a life-changing few weeks for the star, who was born in Canada to a Romanian dad and Chinese mum and moved to Britain at the age of two. How lucky we are to call her our own.
You can keep across all the reaction the Raducanu's remarkable victory on the BBC Sport website and why not start by checking out Amy Lofthouse's report here, see how the Queen led the celebratory messages or even check out Raducanu's best shots from the final below.
Martina Navratilova has hit out at fellow tennis great John McEnroe after he questioned at Wimbledon whether new US Open champion Emma Raducanu could mentally handle the pressure of the big stage.
Raducanu retired from her fourth-round match against Ajla Tomljanovic on Court One at SW19 in July on medical grounds.
She was seen holding her stomach on several occasions and appeared to be hyperventilating before retiring, and the following day revealed she had 'breathing difficulties' and that she thought 'the whole experience caught up with me.'
But her withdrawal received criticism from some quarters, including from tennis legend McEnroe, who suggested the 18-year-old found playing in the last 16 'a little too much'.
McEnroe however faced a backlash himself for suggesting Raducanu buckled under the pressure and got 'emotional' at the All England Club earlier this year.
But Raducanu responded on the court in superb style just a couple of months later by becoming the first ever qualifier to win a Grand Slam after beating fellow teenager Leylah Fernandez in the US Open final in straight sets.
And Navratilova - who won 18 Grand Slam singles titles - believes that the 18-year-old Brit has 'silenced her critics', who will never 'be talking anything about her mental fitness ever again'.
Speaking on The Andrew Marr Show, Navratilova said: 'She has very much silenced those critics and I said that at the time 'STFU' because you don't know what you're talking about.