Britain’s Emma Raducanu, 18, beats Leylah Fernandez, 19, to win US Open

NEW YORK — Unseeded British teen Emma Raducanu went from qualifier to champion astatine the U.S. Open successful conscionable her 2nd quality astatine a Grand Slam tournament.

Raducanu bushed Canadian teen Leylah Fernandez 6-4, 6-3 successful the last astatine Flushing Meadows connected Saturday to go the archetypal subordinate to spell preliminary qualifying rounds each the mode to a large rubric successful the nonrecreational era.

The 18-year-old Raducanu, who is ranked 150th, coiled up winning each 20 sets she played successful New York — six successful qualifying, 14 successful the main gully — and is the archetypal pistillate to triumph the singles title without dropping a acceptable since Serena Williams successful 2014.

This was the archetypal large last betwixt 2 teens since Williams, 17, bushed Martina Hingis, 18, astatine the 1999 U.S. Open and the archetypal betwixt 2 unseeded women.

Raducanu broke to spell up 4-2 successful the 2nd set, held for 5-2 and doubly was a constituent from winning the rubric successful the adjacent game. But she fto some of those opportunities gaffe distant by putting groundstrokes into the net.

Then astatine 5-3, portion Raducanu was serving for the match, she slid connected the tribunal chasing a shot to her backhand side, bloodying her near knee. A trainer came retired to enactment a achromatic bandage connected the chopped and, during a hold of much than 4 minutes, Fernandez — a 19-year-old left-hander from Canada ranked 73rd — spoke to seat umpire Marijana Veljovic.

When they resumed, Raducanu saved a brace of interruption points, past converted connected her 3rd accidental to adjacent it, ending a 108 mph ace. She dropped her racket, landed connected her backmost and covered her look with some hands.

Raducanu is the archetypal British pistillate to triumph a Grand Slam trophy since Virginia Wade astatine Wimbledon successful 1977.

She is besides the youngest subordinate to assertion a women’s large rubric since Maria Sharapova was 17 astatine Wimbledon successful 2004.