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Emma Raducanu: Tennis star receives MBE at Windsor Castle

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Tennis star Emma Raducanu has said she is "extremely grateful" after meeting the King and receiving her MBE.

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

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

She became the first British woman to win a Grand Slam singles title since Virginia Wade in 1977 and the first qualifier of any nationality to do so.

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Raducanu stunned the tennis world with her win at Flushing Meadows, taking the title without dropping a set

The former pupil at Newstead Wood School in Orpington beamed as she posed for pictures after meeting the King.