Raducanu starts 2023 on a winning note in Auckland
The Briton went through a not-so-great WTA 2022 season as she called her season off as early as in October 2022 after she suffered from a wrist injury.
The Briton went through a not-so-great WTA 2022 season as she called her season off as early as in October 2022 after she suffered from a wrist injury.
In her record-breaking 63rd consecutive major appearance, Alize Cornet of France hogged the limelight, ending Raducanu's title defence inside the Louis Armstrong Stadium 3-6, 3-6.
Williams was broken in the first game of the match by 19-year-old Raducanu, who quickly dominated and went on to win 6-4, 6-0.
The 40-year old Williams, who is more than two decades older than her 19-year-old opponent, was the top-ranked player in the world when Raducanu was born in November of 2002.
After winning her first match at Wimbledon on Monday, the 28-year-old Garcia predicted that her second-round clash against home favourites Raducanu was ticketed for Centre Court.
The 19-year-old conceded the match while down 4-3 and a break of serve in the first set, and later said "no idea" when asked whether she would be fit for the grass-court major beginning on June 27, a BBC report said.
Several other notable athletes were given the prestigious Laureus award during a digital ceremony hosted from Seville, are 2021 US Open women's singles tennis champion Emma Raducanu, who received the Laureus 'World Breakthrough of the Year Award', while the Laureus 'World Team of the Year' was awarded to the Italian national football team who won the Euro 2020 title last year.
Eighteen-year-old Raducanu became the first qualifier in the Open Era to win a major and become the first British woman to win a Slam since Virginia Wade in 1977 when she defeated Leylah Fernandez of Canada on Sunday (September 12 - IST).
The 18-year-old British teenager, who had made her tour-level main-draw debut in Nottingham just three months ago, emerged the new US Open women's champion, defeating 19-year-old Leylah Fernandez of Canada.