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Emma Raducanu on watching her US Open final, meeting Lewis Hamilton & her mum's cooking

US Open champion Emma Raducanu says it felt like somebody else was playing as she watched Saturday's final for the first time on returning home.

Speaking to BBC Breakfast she says being the first British woman in 44 years to win a Grand Slam singles title is "gradually sinking in".

"I watched the final and tried to remember how it felt," she adds.

"It's still such a whirlwind of an experience. I've loved every moment of it but it is something that is difficult to comprehend.

"When I was watching it [the final] it almost feels like that's not me whose playing and pulling off some of those shots.