Emma Raducanu

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Emma Raducanu Tennis player
Emma Raducanu
Wimbledon qualification 2018
Nation: United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
Date of birth: 13th November 2002 (age 18)
Size: 175 cm
1st professional season: 2018
Playing hand: Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer: Andrew Richardson
Prize money: $ 2,803,376
singles
Career record: 74:22
Career title: 1 WTA , 3 ITF
Highest ranking: 23 (September 13, 2021)
Current placement: 23
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record: 0-0
Career title: 0 WTA, 0 ITF
Last update of the infobox:
September 13, 2021
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA (see web links )

Emma Raducanu (born November 13, 2002 in Toronto , Canada ) is a British tennis player . She won the US Open in 2021 as a qualifier .

Career

Emma Raducanu is the daughter of the native Romanian Ioan Răducanu and the Chinese Renee, who comes from Shenyang , the capital of the Liaoning Province .

Emma Raducanu was born in Toronto, Canada. At the age of two she moved with her family to the United Kingdom , where she began playing tennis in the London Borough of Bromley when she was five . With her 13th birthday, Emma Raducanu met the minimum age requirements for participation in ITF tournaments for U18 players and won the Nike Junior International on November 21, 2015 in Liverpool . This made her the youngest tournament winner in ITF history.

According to the ITF profile, Raducanu prefers hard courts . She won three singles titles on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour in 2018 and 2019. In 2018 she received a wildcard to qualify for the women's singles at the Wimbledon Championships . She lost there in the first round against Barbora Štefková in three sets. In the junior singles she reached the quarterfinals, where she was defeated in two sets against the eventual winner Iga Świątek . At the junior singles of the US Open , she also reached the quarter-finals, where she lost to future finalist Clara Burel . In 2019, she failed in the women's qualification and in the junior women's tournament in the first round at Wimbledon .

In 2021, Raducanu was able to take part in the Wimbledon Championships by means of a wildcard as number 338 in the WTA world rankings . She beat each Witalija Djatschenko , Markéta Vondroušová and Sorana Cîrstea before they had to give up in the second round against Ajla Tomljanović in the second set. This makes her the youngest British Open Era player to make it into the fourth round of this tournament.

At the US Open 2021 , Raducanu, who was 150th in the WTA world rankings before the tournament, successfully qualified. In the main draw, she lined up victory after victory and qualified - including victories against the top 20 players Belinda Bencic in the quarter-finals and Maria Sakkari in the semi-finals - for the final, which she beat 19-year-old Leylah Fernandez 6: 4 and Won 6-3. In the course of the tournament (including qualification) Raducanu had not given up a set or played a tie-break . Raducanu is the first female tennis player since the beginning of the Open Era in 1968 to win a Grand Slam tournament as a qualifier . Before that, no qualifier had ever reached the final of a tournament in this category. She is the first British winner of a Grand Slam tournament since Virginia Wade in 1977. She improved to 23rd place in the world rankings after the tournament.

successes

All successes relate to individual competitions.

Tournament victories

No. date competition category Covering Final opponent Result
1. 19th May 2018 IsraelIsrael Tiberias ITF $ 15,000 Hard court BelgiumBelgium Hélène Scholsen 7: 5, 6: 4
2. October 21, 2018 TurkeyTurkey Antalya ITF $ 15,000 Hard court Czech RepublicCzech Republic Johana Marková 6: 4, 6: 2
3. 15th December 2019 IndiaIndia Pune ITF W25 Hard court United KingdomUnited Kingdom Naiktha Bains 3: 6, 6: 1, 6: 4
4th September 11, 2021 United StatesUnited States US Open Grand Slam Hard court CanadaCanada Leylah Fernandez 6: 4, 6: 3

Final participation

No. date competition category Covering Tournament winner Result
1. March 31, 2019 IsraelIsrael Tel Aviv ITF W15 Hard court ItalyItaly Corinna Dentoni 4: 6, 3: 6
2. March 1, 2020 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Sunderland ITF W25 Hard court (hall) BulgariaBulgaria Viktoria Tomova 6: 4, 4: 6, 3: 6
3. August 22, 2021 United StatesUnited States Chicago WTA Challenger Hard court DenmarkDenmark Clara Tauson 1: 6, 6: 2, 4: 6

Career statistics and tournament balance

singles

The last update came after the US Open 2021.

competition

2018 2019 2020 2021 total
Australian Open

- - - - 0
French Open

- - - - 0
Wimbledon

- - n / A AF 0
US Open

- - - S. 1
Tour Championships

- - n / A   0
Doha

- a. K. - a. K. 0
Dubai

a. K. - a. K. - 0
Indian Wells

- - n / A   0
Miami

- - n / A - 0
Rome

- - - - 0
Madrid

- - n / A - 0
Cincinnati

- - - - 0
Montreal / Toronto

- - n / A - 0
Wuhan

- - n / A n / A 0
Beijing

- - n / A n / A 0
Olympic games

not carried out - 0
Billie Jean King Cup

- -   0
Tournament participation

8th 9 2 7th 26th
Finals reached

2 2 1 2 7th
Title won

2 1 0 1 4th
Hard court wins / defeats

22: 4 25: 7 4: 2 18: 3 69:16
Sand wins / defeats

0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
Turf wins / defeats

0: 2 0: 1 0-0 5: 3 5: 6
Carpet wins / defeats

0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
Overall wins / losses

22: 6 25: 8 4: 2 23: 6 74:22
Year-end position

692 503 343   N / A

Explanation of symbols: S = tournament victory; F, HF, VF, AF = entry into the final / semi-finals / quarter-finals / round of 16; 1, 2, 3 = elimination in the 1st / 2nd / 3rd main round; RR = Round Robin (group stage); na = not carried out; a. K. = other category; PO (playoff) = promotion and relegation round in the Fed Cup; K1, K2, K3 = participation in continental groups I, II, III in the Fed Cup.

Note : These statistics take into account all results individually, as it is on the WTA page. Only WTA tournaments of the Premier Mandatory and Premier 5 categories (until 2020) or the WTA tournaments of the 1000 categories (since 2021) are shown.

Web links

Commons : Emma Raducanu  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Emma Raducanu - Who is Britain's Chinese-Romanian teen tennis star. South China Morning Post, July 5, 2021, accessed September 9, 2021 .
  2. Olivia Marks: Meet Emma Raducanu. Vogue, September 7, 2021, accessed September 10, 2021 .
  3. Emma Raducanu shock at reaching US Open semi-finals in New York. BBC Sport, September 8, 2021, accessed September 10, 2021 .
  4. Povestea Emmei Raducanu, junioara cu origini românești care a devenit speranța tenisului feminine britanic. In: sport.ro , accessed on January 19, 2021 (Romanian).
  5. Tennis teenager makes history in Liverpool at Nike Junior International. In: liverpoolecho.uk , accessed January 19, 2021.
  6. Raducanu Ridge? How Wimbledon's fans on the hill fell for a new star. In: theguardian.com. July 3, 2021, accessed July 8, 2021 .
  7. Teenager Raducanu becomes youngest British woman to reach Wimbledon last 16. In: gulfnews.com. July 3, 2021, accessed July 8, 2021 .
  8. Klaus Bellstedt: Emma Raducanu vs. Leylah Fernandez at the US Open: The actually impossible final of two phenomena. In: Der Spiegel. Retrieved September 11, 2021 .
  9. US Open: Teenager Raducanu defeats Olympic champion Bencic and makes it to the semifinals. In: Der Spiegel. Retrieved September 8, 2021 .
  10. US Open - Qualifier Emma Raducanu wins sensational final. In: Der Spiegel. Retrieved September 11, 2021 .
  11. Leylah Fernandez and Emma Raducanu clear sensational finals at the US Open. In: RTL.de. Retrieved September 10, 2021 .