Raducanu The adolescent with an honorary degree and an unusual origin that amazes
Worthy of admiration and amazement,
Emma Raducanu
, who was contesting the second Grand Slam of her career and coming from the qualifying phase, won the United States Open at age 18 by defeating
Leylah Fernández
, 19, in one hour and 51 minutes.
[6-4 and 6-3: Narration and statistics]
Full recognition for the British, the youngest champion of a tournament of this rank since
Maria Sharapova
won Wimbledon in 2004 without having reached the age of majority. Raducanu, the second player from the United Kingdom to win in New York in the professional era, after doing it
Virginia Wade
in 1968, entered the tournament as number 150 in the world and this Monday will be the twenty-third in the ranking. She leaves New York unsullied, with 10 wins without giving up a set, three of them in the qualifying phase. She is the first tennis player to win a big one coming from
qualifying.
In the adolescent final, he was more faithful to what he had shown throughout the competition and marked distances with the rest against a rival somewhat more intimidated by the scale of the situation. Eighth finalist in the last edition of Wimbledon, he takes a huge leap in his career and lays the foundations of the tennis that is to come. It remains to be seen how he will evolve into an elite subject to continuous turmoil, but he wields weapons that suggest a firm future. Raducanu was left to blood in the pursuit of the title, in a trance that generated protests from his adversary. He missed a
match point
at 5-3, but he skidded in the next game when chasing a ball and blood spurted from his left knee. The game was stopped to be attended, with a breaking ball for Fernández, who protested the interruption. The British did not lose the pulse on her return to the field, making the second match point good with an
ace.
The final also represented a cult of miscegenation.
Leylah Fernández, of an Ecuadorian father and a Filipino mother who emigrated to Montreal, where she saw the light.
Emma Raducanu, of a Romanian father and Chinese mother residing in Toronto, where the tennis player opened her eyes before her family moved to London, when she was two years old.
Separated by only seven weeks, the Canadian has already turned 19. Champion at the beginning of the course in Monterrey and finalist in 2020 in Acapulco, Fernández also had a wider route on the circuit, although no one expected her in such an event.
Without truce
There was no truce since the ball began to fly. In the second game, Raducanu already made the
break
, but found an immediate response. Seemingly oblivious to responsibility, to the vertigo of an unknown situation, both played the game that had brought them to the final. The British does not give respite. It was better for Fernández to refine with the serve; before any inaccuracy a bomb was coming on him. So it was, with a cross backhand rest, as Raducanu looked at the first set ball: 5-4 and 15-40. He would need to reach the fourth to make the set his own, with a winning forehand.
Faced with the more open territory that the British traversed until the final match, Fernández had left behind three
top-fives
on his way to the final: Osaka, Svitolina and Sabalenka.
Thus, it was expected that he would be able to respond to a delicate situation, as he had already done in previous encounters.
He neutralized a 0-40 in the second game of the second set, a triple threat that would have left him on the ropes.
Not only did she get ahead, but she was the one who broke up next.
But Raducanu is, if possible, even more dangerous when it remains.
It took little time to deliver the blow that would be final.
He went on the scoreboard and managed his advantage, without his hand shaking when he saw an opponent approaching who never lowered his arms.
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