Sportswoman of the Week Ending 9/12/2021

An exciting and unpredictable finish punctuated the 2021 United States Open (of Tennis) and the biggest surprise was on the ladies side of the bracket.  Youth was served as teenagers Leylah Fernandez (Canada) faced off against Great Britain's Emma Raducanu in what turned out to be a straight set victory for the latter. Raducanu became the first qualifier to make the Finals of the Open and didn't drop a set throughout the two week tournament.  She never even needed a tiebreak.  Fernandez did some heavy lifting in ousting favorites such as Naomi Osaka and Angelique Kerber and actually beat 3 of the Top 5 seeds.  But Raducanu was just too amazingly hot to stop.  Raducanu may be on the precipice of a stalwart career and is the Longhorndave Sportswoman of the Week!

Sportswoman of the Week Ending 1/31/2016

A week off from football, but the tour Grand Slams were in full swing with the Australian Open.  And we have a first time Grand Slam event winner in Angelique Kerber!  The 28-year-old German veteran (by tennis standards) won her first Slam final, defeating the suddenly vincible Serena Williams in a three-set thriller final.  Kerber even fought off a match point in the first round, the round she was eliminated in Australia in 2015.  Kerber becomes the first German to win the event since Steffi Graf in 1994 and moves to her highest world ranking at number 2.  Can she complete the ladies Grand Slam? Not likely.  But to win 'em all, you have to win the first, and Ms. Kerber did just that, and takes our Sportswoman of the Week!