The new world revelation of women's tennis, the Canadian teenager Bianca Andreescu , 19 , who tonight reached her first Grand Slam final by beating 7-6 (3) and 7-5 at the Swiss Belinda Bencic in the semifinal of the United States Open, said he had always dreamed of achieving it. "I struggled a lot to get to this point," admitted Andreescu, fifteenth favorite, who traced an adverse score of 2-5 in the second set and then made five straight games and completed his meteoric rise in world tennis.

"I've always dreamed of this moment since I was a child, " Andreescu said in his post-game press conference. "But I don't think a lot of people would have thought it would come true."

Andreescu becomes the first teenager to reach the US Open final since 2009 when the Danish Caroline Wozniacki, the same age, who lost it 7-6 and 6-3 against Belgian Kim Clijsters . He also manages to be the first tennis player since 1997 to reach the grand final of the Open in his debut in the last Grand Slam tournament of the season. The American Venus Williams was the last to get it.

"I continued to believe in myself," Andreescu continued. "But I think that moment, after making the game point, I was in shock. At the same time, I fought very hard to get here, so I really think I deserve to be in the final on Saturday."

Andreescu reaches the final in his debut in the main draw of the Open when a year ago, at that time, he was ranked out of the Top 200 and fell in the first qualifying round at Flushing Meadows .

The rising star becomes the second Canadian to reach a Grand Slam final, after Eugenie Bouchard played Wimbledon in 2014.

In the final, Serena

Andreescu now in the final will have to face Serena Williams , 37, the eighth favorite, who after winning 20 the first of six titles he has in the Open will look for the seventh and twenty-fourth of his career to equate with the legendary Australian Margaret Court .

Williams, unlike Andreescu, trained against Ukrainian Elina Svitolina , fifth favorite, which he won by 6-3 and 6-1, in just one hour and 10 minutes.

"I remember that I always told my team that I would have always wanted to play with Williams just before she retires," Andreescu confessed. "I'm really looking forward to the match. She is an amazing champion on and off the court. It will be fun."

Andreescu admitted that when he was 10 years old, Williams would win most of the Grand Slam titles, but now he wants the story to be different, for her to win the game and the title. "I have no doubt that it will be a great game because we are both going to put on the track our best game and in the end, I won the one that has done the best," Andreescu said. "What I do know is that I will not feel any pressure ."

He has shown all season to grow in the games he has played against the best in the WTA circuit, and was on his way to do it with Williams herself in the Toronto Premier 5 final when she had a 3-1 advantage and American tennis player had to retire with a back injury. "I was about to play with a champion in the Rogers Cup final, obviously I was nervous," Andreescu said, recalling his Toronto game against Williams. "But I think I channeled that nervousness into something else. When I stepped on the court, I really didn't think about who was on the other side. I think having those four games against her will help me on Saturday."

Andreescu, who will make his Top 10 debut in the WTA Ranking on Monday, now becomes one of the seven women to make a Grand Slam final before his fifth appearance in a Grand Slam main draw.

The Canadian teenager, who is playing only her fourth Grand Slam main draw, is also the second teenager to reach a Grand Slam final this year, alongside Czech Markéta Vondrousova , 20, Roland Garros runner-up.

Andreescu also had words of praise for Bencic , which he said was very complicated with his tennis and the key to the victory was when he managed to change the pace after getting down 2-5 on the scoreboard.

"But the real reason why I won tonight and can be in the final of the US Open was that I always kept fighting, I never gave up and with the same mentality I will go out to play on Saturday," Andreescu said.

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