He US Open 2024 It starts this Monday in New York, and it’s doing so with three big names. Novak Djokovic, Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner start as top favorites for the title at a time when they are showing themselves as the great dominators of the circuit.
All three achieved great success in their sports careers, especially the Serbian, whose gold at the Paris Games completed a legendary track record. however, There was one thing he and other racket stars couldn’t achieve: beat the scoring record in a tournament.
That honor belongs to Emma Raducanu. The British tennis player achieved the greatest, and in fact only, success of his career in 2021. He won the US Open in a surprising and massive way, because he did not give up a single one in the entire tournament, a very good fact if we consider that he did not play the seven matches required in a Grand Slam, but ten. because he has to compete in the preliminary phase.
And that is why he achieved a mark so far unheard of in the history of tennis. Of the 2,000 awarded to tennis players who have won a Grand Slam, 40 more have been added to pass the qualifying phase.
So, Raducanu left New York with a check for two and a half million dollars and 2,040 pointsa plunder (of points) that no one can match unless they play the previous stage.
Source: La Verdad
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