• US Open tennis champion secures most viewer votes
  • Tom Daley and Adam Peaty finish second and third

The tennis player Emma Raducanu has been voted 2021 BBC Sports Personality of the Year following her remarkable women’s singles triumph at the US Open.

The 19-year-old became the first qualifier ever to win a grand slam event with a shock success at Flushing Meadows in September. That astonishing victory, when she defeated Leylah Fernandez in the final, arrived after she burst on to the scene at Wimbledon in the summer. Raducanu, whose mother is Chinese and father is Romanian, became the youngest British player to reach the second week in SW19.

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