Emma Raducanu Wins BBC Sports Personality Year 2021

&NewLine;<div class&equals;"wp-block-image"><figure class&equals;"aligncenter size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;igettalk&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;12&sol;emma-raducanu-wins-bbc-sports-personality-of-year-2021&period;jpg" class&equals;"wp-image-9360"&sol;><&sol;figure><&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>BBC Sport has crowned Emma Raducanu as the sports personality of the year&comma; beating other nominees&semi; Tom Daley and Adam Peaty at the Abu Dhabi event&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The 19-year-old British tennis player received the award remotely as she was recovering after testing positive for Covid-19&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It’s such an honor just to be amongst these nominees&comma; to win … it’s pretty amazing to me&period; I watched this growing up&comma; so I’m really happy to join the past winners and I’m really happy for British tennis too&period; This past year has been absolutely insane&comma;” she said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Raducanu is the current United States Open champion&comma; and the first British woman to win a Grand Slam singles title since Virginia Wade in the 1977 Wimbledon Championships&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;