SCOTT Parker says he can use Emma Raducanu's sensational US Open victory as inspiration for his ambitious group at Cherries.

The 18-year-old Brit stunned the world, coming through qualifying to win one of the biggest tennis tournaments of the year.

Bromley-based Raducanu won all her matches in New York without even dropping a set, including a 6-4, 6-3 victory over Canadian Leylah Fernandez in the final.

In doing so, Raducanu became the first British woman to win a singles Grand Slam since Bournemouth-born Virginia Wade at Wimbledon in 1977.

Raducanu also became the youngest winner of a Slam since a 17-year-old Maria Sharapova won at Wimbledon in 2004.

Asked if he feels an achievement such as that can help inspire his players, Parker said: "It definitely can. I watched it, of course with the admiration of someone so young in terms of on the stage she’s at.

"Someone who showed different facets I was impressed with. When she had the nerve and the composure when the game was literally right in the balance, she was trying to see the game out, the girl (Fernandez) has got the ascendancy and then she’s got the coolness to take a break at that moment, get the medic out, which was rightly so.

"But she had a decision in those moments. I was probably looking at it more from a coach’s head. She took the sting right out of the match.

"I’d like to think that the players look at that and I’m sure they do. I certainly did."

And Parker also says victories such as Raducanu's can serve as added motivation during his pre-match chats with the players.

"We’re always referencing events or using other teams, other individuals in certain moments," explained Parker.

"My words only hold so much and they always could be more powerful with examples of the elite doing it as well and showing it practically and certainly there was elements there in Emma’s case.

"The example I’ve given you there, that can be exactly the same as a football match really in terms of knowing or having the coolness, the calmness in the height of pressure in the moment when psychologically you could be going the other way, you’ve dropped a couple of points which was to win it, the girl (Fernandez) has then come back into it and it was a key moment.

"She had the coolness just to take the sting out of it with what she did. So there’s always elements of that."