18-year-old British teen Emma Raducanu made sporting history when she won the women’s singles finals at the US Open last week.
The tennis sensation won £1.8 million in prize money after beating Leylah Fernandez with an incredible 6-4 6-3 win in the finals.
Raducanu, who became the first British woman to win a Grand Slam in qualifying, has established herself as a sporting hero.
To help get a more in-depth look at her historic win, the Mirror has broken down Raducanu’s success into numbers.
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0 – The number of sets Raducanu lost in the US Open tournament
1 – She is now the British no.1 in tennis with 1 Grand Slam under her belt
1.75 – Is her height in metres, she stands at 1.75m / 5ft 7″
2 – She has 2 A Levels, an A* in maths and an A in economics – which she gained whilst in the depths of her training for the US Open
3 – Aces served in her US Open final
4 – The number of break points that Raducanu won in the final
5 – The age when she was introduced to tennis by her parents, five-years-old
10 – Matches were won by her at this year’s tournament with her final match score concluding at 6-4 6-3
12 – She won 12 games in the final
18 – Raducanu is only 18-years-old
24 – Her new projected world ranking is 24
44 – The number of years since the last British woman, Virginia Wade, claimed a Grand Slam singles title, until Raducanu’s impressive win
50 – The number of games that she lost in the US Open (including qualifiers)
72 – She had a 72% first-serve success rate in the final
81 – The final saw her win a total of 81 points
109 – 109mph was the top speed her serve reached in the final, which interestingly was actually 13mph slower than the 17-year-old Coco Gauff’s fastest serve during the tournament
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120 – Raducanu won 120 games overall in the US Open
150 – 150 was her world ranking at the beginning of the tournament
338 – 338 was her world ranking before arriving at Wimbledon as a wild card earlier this year
3,461 – It is just over 3,461 miles from the US Open grounds at flushing meadows to her home in the London Borough of Bromley
23,771 – An incredible 23,711 people watched the final in person at the Arthur Ashe stadium in New York
9,000,000 – The peak TV audience recorded by channel four was roughly 9,200,000
150,000,000 – £15m is her predicted net worth following her triumph