New York (AFP)

19-year-old Briton Emma Raducanu won the US Open, beating 18-year-old Canadian Leylah Fernandez 6-4, 6-3 on Saturday in New York.

She thus became the first player from qualifying to win a Grand Slam title and also the youngest since Russia's Maria Sharapova who won Wimbledon at 17 in 2004.

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