US Open: Emma Raducanu’s title win ‘incredible’, a huge boost for British tennis, says Andy Murray

Andy Murray has described Emma Raducanu’s US Open title as “very particular” after she grew to become the primary British girl to win a Grand Slam singles title for 44 years on Saturday

9 years after Murray gained the primary of his three Grand Slam titles on the US Open, 18-year-old Raducanu surprised the tennis world by beating fellow teenager Leylah Fernandez in Flushing Meadows.

Raducanu, the primary qualifier ever to win a Grand Slam title, didn’t drop a set all through the match.

“It was unimaginable what she did there,” Murray, who himself ended Britain’s 76-year await a male Grand Slam champion when he beat Novak Djokovic within the 2012 remaining, instructed the BBC.

“What she did in New York was very particular, an enormous enhance for British tennis and provides hopefully the governing our bodies a possibility to capitalise on that and get an increasing number of children concerned within the sport. It is nice what she did and an enormous alternative for British tennis now.”

The 34-year-old Murray, who has lengthy shouldered the burden of British tennis, stated he knew how good Raducanu was when she reached the Wimbledon fourth spherical earlier this 12 months.

“I’ve spent somewhat little bit of time round her on the observe court docket, however extra so in the identical constructing, coaching shut to one another, and watching what she’s doing, and she or he’s clearly actually, actually good,” the previous world primary stated.

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