[Other Sport] Emma Raducanu

[saafend_seagull]

Difference is, Emma is ACTUALLY British, unlike 2 of those you've mentioned.

And to make her even more appealing, she's not just British, she's ENGLISH. Some people never warmed to Andy Murray, often citing his Scottishness.

She isn’t English at all. Just has a GBR passport!


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[Gwylan]

What would have been the odds of a Raducanu/Fernandez final before the start of the tournament? 20,000-1? 50,000-1? 100,000-1? Someone could have cleaned up there

 

[Icy Gull]

Bugger I came to this thread this morning thinking that the game was tomorrow morning

I’ll watch the replay on Amazon Prime but it will only be 25% as much fun as watching live would have been.

As for whether she is British, the moment she opens her mouth she SCREAMS British to me

I wonder who Rusdeski will really be supporting in the final

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

First woman to reach a grand slam final in 44 years.

First qualifier - men's or women's - to reach the final of a major tournament EVER.

Didn’t Boris Becker win Wimbledon as a qualifier? I may be wrong.

 

[Hugo Rune]

I didn’t like how you mentioned that she was ‘beautiful’. Although stuff like that doesn’t normally bother me it’s that kind of casual sexism that has started to irritate me since I had a daughter. However I realised you had made reference to a former players modelling career and Raducanu falling into the same problems and so there was context for you calling her beautiful.

Indeed.

There are millions of beautiful women in the world and Emma happens to be one of them. Vogue clearly recognised this early in her career. Pretty unremarkable and dull if you ask me.

However, you could count on two hands the amount of young tennis players with her potential right now, she could be the best and those that are British number just one.

That’s what marks her out from the crowd and makes her unique and newsworthy. The beauty is a distraction that many will latch on to but hopefully it won’t derail her career.

But at least those who admire her physical form aren’t questioning her Britishness like some of the pond life on this forum.

 

[drew]

Bugger I came to this thread this morning thinking that the game was tomorrow morning

I’ll watch the replay on Amazon Prime but it will only be 25% as much fun as watching live would have been.

As for whether she is British, the moment she opens her mouth she SCREAMS British to me

I wonder who Rusdeski will really be supporting in the final

Bit harsh, he has an English mother and a father of Polish and Ukrainian descent. He's lived here since 1995 and married an English girl.

Where he lets himself down is being an Arsenal fan!!!

 

[Icy Gull]

Didn’t Boris Becker win Wimbledon as a qualifier? I may be wrong.

See post 186, you can call me Eva Petulengro if she goes on to win it

I think Boris was unseeded rather than a qualifier

 

[Icy Gull]

Bit harsh, he has an English mother and a father of Polish and Ukrainian descent. He's lived here since 1995 and married an English girl.

Where he lets himself down is being an Arsenal fan!!!

All true but he SOUNDS like a Canadian to me

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

Didn’t Boris Becker win Wimbledon as a qualifier? I may be wrong.

No, he was the first unseeded player to win Wimbledon when he won in 1985. Becker was already ranked number 20 in the world when he won, but Grand Slam tournaments back then only had 16 seeded players rather than the 32 seeds they have now.

 

[Randy McNob]

She isn’t English at all. Just has a GBR passport!


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ah, but is it Blue? thats what really counts....

 

[pornomagboy]

if you have talent then age isn't just a number gets hope evan Ferguson can step up

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[Randy McNob]

It is simply astonishing. She was ranked 338th in the world at the start of Wimbledon! It's just about equivalent to Whitehawk reaching the FA Cup Final.

thats not a logical comparison, Raducanu is ranked so low because she only starting out and hasn't developed a ranking, but she is clearly a top class player. There' not a gulf in ability as there would be with 2 football teams 6 or so divisions apart

 

[Thunder Bolt]

thats not a logical comparison, Raducanu is ranked so low because she only starting out and hasn't developed a ranking, but she is clearly a top class player. There' not a gulf in ability as there would be with 2 football teams 6 or so divisions apart

She still had to play qualifiers to get into the US Open.

 

[dazzer6666]

Listened to it on the radio this morning….….commentators were running out of superlatives by the second set. Amazing performance again, pretty much destroyed her opponent’s game.

 

[KZNSeagull]

Well that's great news to wake up to. Another thrashing. Splendid!!

 

[Hugo Rune]

There's not a gulf in ability as there would be with 2 football teams 6 or so divisions apart

There is a gulf in ability but it’s the other way round. She has not lost a set in the tournament yet and is destroying top 20 opponents with ease.

 

[Bry Nylon]

Listened to it on the radio this morning….….commentators were running out of superlatives by the second set. Amazing performance again, pretty much destroyed her opponent’s game.

Yup. Completely dismantled Sakkari last night and pretty much everything in her path before that. Unbelievable. She’s being described in New York as Tornado Raducanu.

Go Emma!

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Funniest thing is how completely unfazed she seems by it all. You'd think she was playing in the Ladies Invitational at her local tennis club

 

[Frutos]

Fantastic news to wake up to.

The final between her and Fernandez should be superb - 2100 BST tomorrow.

 

[Randy McNob]

She still had to play qualifiers to get into the US Open.

don't get me wrong it's a brilliant acheivement but Tennis and football is not the same, a young player with huge potential and can defy their ranking and you always have to start at the bottom

Serena Williams was ranked 181 when she reached the 2018 Wimbledon final, because she took a year out.