Apparently no one expected 18-year-old tennis player Emma Raducanu to be still in play at the end of the second week of the US Open. A month ago, the British passed the school-leaving examination, but now she has completely failed in tennis and, including the qualification, she has already eliminated eight rivals. All after a two hundred win. She was the first player in the qualification to go to the semifinals at the US Open and she is most surprised by her performances.
Emma Raducanu sensationally passed from the qualification to the semifinals at the US Open.
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“So I definitely didn’t expect this,” marveled at the daughter of a Romanian father and a Chinese mother born in Toronto, who was 150th in the rankings before the tournament. Although she did not play for 18 months from last February to June this year due to the coronavirus pandemic and the studio, she already reached the eighth final at Wimbledon as a wild card holder.
“I had booked tickets to the end of qualifying. But that’s a nice problem,” Raducanu smiled. In the quarterfinals, her sensational campaign was not stopped even by the Olympic winner Belinda Bencicová, the Swiss lost 3: 6 and 4: 6. In the ranking, Raducanu will be the new British number one, and after almost six years, she will deprive Johanna Konta of this privilege.
I got almost no chance, lamented Plíšková. Is he like Berdych?
“I’m really enjoying this experience. I didn’t expect anything like that at all,” Raducanu marveled. She might just be sorry that she didn’t have parents in New York. Due to current travel restrictions due to covid, they would need an exception. “It’s too late for that,” she sighed. So at least she thanked them from a distance. “For peace and mental strength, it stems from my upbringing.”
She has several tennis role models, specifically naming three-time grand slam champion Andy Murray. “He talked to me quite often. We also trained twice, it was great. I saw the speed of the balls and how great it is …” Tonight, Raducanu can surprise again, her opponent in the semifinals will be Karolina Plíšková’s winner Maria Sakkarivá from Greece.
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