The 27-year-old from Austria is the first man to win the American Grand Slam tournament after trailing 2-0 in sets in the final since Pancho Gonzalez did it against Ted Schroeder in 1949 at an event then known as the U.S. Championships.

``Everybody's excited and it was really good to see her take the charge and kind of re-assert herself at the end, it was great. She's got some swag,'' said Toronto Raptors coach Nick Nurse of Bianca Andreescu, who became the first Canadian to win a Grand Slam singles title.

The 16-year-old from Montreal did not drop a single set en route to winning the French Open.