Emma Raducanu

**Ska'dForLife-WBA** · 12-09-2021, 00:25

Incredible. I stopped up to watch the Murray five-setter against Djokovic in 2012, but somehow this was even better. To have come out of nowhere this year, suffered that heartbreak at Wimbledon, then roared right back to win this tournament without dropping a set - and all at the age of 18 - is just phenomenal. What a bright future Emma has.

**St Charles Owl** · 12-09-2021, 06:39

Fabulous performance again from Emma!! She had to dig a bit deeper than previous matches but was up to it every time Fernandez seemed to come back into it. Not impressed with Fernandez arguing about the medial a time out near the end, what was Emma supposed to do with blood running down her leg??

**Ska'dForLife-WBA** · 12-09-2021, 12:08

(12-09-2021, 06:39)St Charles Owl Wrote: Not impressed with Fernandez arguing about the medial a time out near the end, what was Emma supposed to do with blood running down her leg??

To give Fernandez the benefit of the doubt, it's easy for us watching on TV to see that Emma was bleeding, but maybe not so easy if you're standing at the opposite end of a tennis court, wrapped up in your own in-game psychological bubble. Granted, I think she argued the toss a bit too much after the situation had been explained to her, but she was on the brink of defeat and had worked hard to claw back the momentum, so passions were inevitably going to run high.

**Lord Snooty** · 12-09-2021, 13:27

Got to feel sorry for Leylah. If she'd been beaten by a global superstar like Serena, it wouldn't be so bad for her. But to be 19 years old and beaten by someone even younger, must be tough to take.

But then again, we shouldn't feel sorry for her. Nobody gives a toss about all the sporting heartbreaks we've had over the years.

Hope these two stay injury free though. Can't wait to see these two scrapping it out in the next one.

**St Charles Owl** · 12-09-2021, 19:50

(12-09-2021, 12:08)Ska'dForLife-WBA Wrote:
(12-09-2021, 06:39)St Charles Owl Wrote: Not impressed with Fernandez arguing about the medial a time out near the end, what was Emma supposed to do with blood running down her leg??

To give Fernandez the benefit of the doubt, it's easy for us watching on TV to see that Emma was bleeding, but maybe not so easy if you're standing at the opposite end of a tennis court, wrapped up in your own in-game psychological bubble. Granted, I think she argued the toss a bit too much after the situation had been explained to her, but she was on the brink of defeat and had worked hard to claw back the momentum, so passions were inevitably going to run high.

Yes I said that at the time she might not have seen the blood but she kept on talking to officials even after the end of the game about it. Maybe at that point she was explaining that she didn't know what the injury was but we may never know. I was just surprised she seemed to keep on complaining about it even after it was explained to her.

**Lord Snooty** · 12-09-2021, 21:09

Maybe she was just saying; "How bloody long does it take to put a chuffing plaster on?"

And she'd have a point. It doesn't require a full scale assessment, followed by a three minute medical time out, just to put a plaster on. But, those are the rules. So nobody did owt wrong and she did have quite a reasonable question to be answered.

hibeejim21 · 12-09-2021, 21:22

This girl is incredible!!

Devongone · (This post was last modified: 13-09-2021, 12:28 by Devongone.)

Emma did absolutely brilliantly. winning ten consecutive matches without dropping a set is some performance. At 18 a few weeks after her A Levels in a season for her which followed a prolonged period of little competition and little practice that is astonishing, but it is important to recognise she did have a golden ticket with the draw. Whereas Leylah had to knock out several top players herself, including the physically imposing Sabalenka, Emma cruised through a section of the draw in which the top players were falling to lower-ranked players, who were themselves vulnerable to a player as good as Emma. That she kept winning was astonishing, but to be fair to her opponent, she had battled past top players from her own ranking of 73 in the world and had now come face to face with a player she was supposed to beat, but who had beaten her in their only previous match and was even younger .......... I can understand her getting a little shirty over the cut knee. She was looking for something to go her way and she didn't need to be a weatherman to be seeing which way the wind was blowing.

To add to Leylah's woes, whereas she looks pretty much physically developed in a smaller, slimmer frame, Emma might add an inch or so and certainly will define her muscles. With full-time training behind her, if she can avoid injury, Emma might get stronger, serve that bit harder, ground strokes become more devastating, add another yard of speed. So long as we don't break her with our high expectations she could become great. How good that she seems so British, speaks Mandarin and has a Rumanian dad. She took the knee, when she took her first breath.

ritchiebaby · 13-09-2021, 14:17

One benefit that Emma had is that she had a less frantic, albeit headline-grabbing, tennis season. She had fewer sets to play in the tournament and seemed fresher and strongly focused - lose an important point?, too bad, on to the next one. As well as Emma staying injury-free, I desperately hope she manages to retain her apparently, happy-go-lucky, positive outlook. So refreshing in angst-ridden society.

Keep smiling, it's infectious.

**Lord Snooty** · (This post was last modified: 13-09-2021, 15:28 by Lord Snooty.)

She's risen 127 paces to no 23 in the rankings. Thumb up

And the way the rankings work, she will gain more points for every tournament she enters. Meaning she won't be losing points for previous tournaments that she hasn't played in.

Who knows how far up she will be by the start of next year's US Open?

Sky Sports as ever, going overboard suggesting she could become women's sports first billionnaire.

For goodness sake, shut up!