Emma Raducanu: Tennis star receives MBE at Windsor Castle

Tennis prima Emma Raducanu has said she is "extremely grateful" aft gathering the King and receiving her MBE.

The 20-year-old was awarded the honour for services to tennis, astatine an investiture ceremonial astatine Windsor Castle.

Raducanu, from Bromley successful south-east London, won the US Open successful September 2021 erstwhile she was 18 years old.

She became the archetypal British pistillate to triumph a Grand Slam singles rubric since Virginia Wade successful 1977 and the archetypal qualifier of immoderate nationality to bash so.

The erstwhile pupil astatine Newstead Wood School successful Orpington beamed arsenic she posed for pictures aft gathering the King.

In a connection issued by her agent, she said: "It's been large to person my honour contiguous from His Majesty the King - I consciousness highly grateful."

The Labour MP Dame Nia Griffith, who was conferred with her damehood astatine the aforesaid ceremony, said of Raducanu: "I deliberation it is fantastic seeing a young idiosyncratic [achieve] the occurrence that she had and I deliberation evidently present she faces that incredibly challenging concern of coping with that occurrence and coping besides with disappointment.

"And I surely deliberation it is fantastic to spot young radical being praised and being rewarded and let's marque definite we springiness each young idiosyncratic the opportunities truthful that they tin make their talents to the full."