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Boris Becker believes Emma Raducanu and Leylah Fernandez are revolutionizing women’s tennis

In The yellow from the ball – the tennis podcast from Eurosport In an interview with moderator Matthias Stach, expert Boris Becker is enthusiastic about Raducanu and Fernandez. “This is a new offensive form of tennis. The others can hardly keep up, because the two are getting better, they will refine it,” predicted Becker.

The 18-year-old Briton Raducanu was the first player in history to win a Grand Slam tournament, even though she started as a qualifier. Overall, it was only the second major that she even started.

Fernandez, who is only a year older, is also new to the tour, having only won three matches at the French Open in four Grand Slam starts. In her first appearance in New York, she made it straight to the final and on the way cleared three top 10 with Naomi Osaka (No. 3), Elina Svitolina (No. 5) and Aryna Sabalenka (No. 2) Players out of the way. The resurrected three-time major winner Angelique Kerber was also eliminated from the young Canadian.

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Becker therefore believes that the brisk game of the two young women is the future of tennis: “This ‘I’ll go to the rally and wait until the other one hits the ball’ – I think that’s over,” said Becker, who also sees some youngsters among the men who could soon stir up the ATP tour.

How much power and top spin an Alcaraz played, how aggressively a Sinner played, how a rune played against Djokovic – that’s a new power, “said Becker enthusiastically. One of the reasons he named the young players’ changed training methods : “They train differently, they are incredibly strong and have an incredible amount of power. They also express that on the pitch. “

“The established ones”, Becker continues, have to get used to the game of the younger ones and in the case of women’s tennis “everyone has to dress warmly” because:

“There’s a new way of playing here!”

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