Raducanu dazzles crowd in Royal Albert Hall homecoming

London’s Royal Albert Hall provided a fitting stage on Sunday for teenage tennis sensation Emma Raducanu’s first appearance on a British court since her astonishing US Open triumph. Playing 79 days after an extraordinary run in New York culminated in victory over Canada’s Leylah Fernandez and being crowned Britain’s new tennis queen, the 19-year-old enjoyed […]

London’s Royal Albert Hall provided a fitting stage on Sunday for teenage tennis sensation Emma Raducanu’s first appearance on a British court since her astonishing US Open triumph.

Playing 79 days after an extraordinary run in New York culminated in victory over Canada’s Leylah Fernandez and being crowned Britain’s new tennis queen, the 19-year-old enjoyed a belated homecoming at the Victorian concert hall.

The stakes were far lower for her exhibition match against Romanian Elena-Gabriela Ruse than when, as a qualifier ranked 150th in the world, she became Britain’s first female Grand Slam champion for 44 years in September.