The Tennis Thread

[tc27]

Fucking get in.

What a tremendous young lady.

[eldanielfire]

Ace to finish. YES EMMA RADUCANU! US OPEN CHAMPION!

[Ymx]

This time she nailed it!!

Nothing wrong with those squeaky bum cheeks.

[Tichtheid]

Wow, just wow.

I thought it was out, but to win it with a fantastic ace!

Wow

[Slick]

This time she nailed it!!

Nothing wrong with those squeaky bum cheeks.

Nothing wrong with much of her to be honest

[BnM]

$2.5m pay check too.

[eldanielfire]

$2.5m pay check too.

That will pale compared to the wave of sponsor offers she will be recieving soon.

[Tichtheid]

She has that thing in sport, she is hard as nails mentally, a winner

[Ymx]

She has that thing in sport, she is hard as nails mentally, a winner

Yeah, she showed some resilience alright.

Looking forward to watching her playing next.

[BnM]

Sorry but this is just insane. WTF how, WTF etc etc

[Uncle fester]

Cracking game. Fernandez did well to battle back into it.

[BnM]

Cheque giving is so cringe.

[Plim]

Fantastic stuff. That was seriously good tennis.

(Bit tacky for the host to big up the $2.5m prize. But then it is ‘merica.)

[Slick]

Cheque giving is so cringe.

Vulgar race

[Lobby]

Definitely Raducanu’s toughest challenge so far, but the quality of tennis she produced was outstanding. To win without dropping a set over 10 games is completely insane.

All bets off now for SPOTY this year; the BBC might as well give it to her now.

[Tichtheid]

That's the BBC Sports personality of the year wrapped up, unless Lewis Hamilton wins more F1 titles than anyone else in history.

edit, I've forgotten the Olympians already, for shame

[tc27]

That's the BBC Sports personality of the year wrapped up, unless Lewis Hamilton wins more F1 titles than anyone else in history.

edit, I've forgotten the Olympians already, for shame

Cant think of anyone who can come close to her even in an Olympic year.

[BnM]

Emma is now ranked 23 in the world. Leylah 28.

[Dogbert]

I think Malcolm Tucker sums this one up better than I can

[Lobby]

Emma is now ranked 23 in the world. Leylah 28.

Some more insane stats:

Emma’s professional tennis career only began in full three months ago.
She has never been a direct entrant to a grand slam main draw.
she is yet to play a tour-level three set match and she has not even won a match at a WTA tour event.
She started the summer ranked 366th and the 12th-ranked British player; She is now the world No 23 and the British No. 1
This is only her second grand slam main draw appearance and no woman in the Open era had ever won in so few attempts.
She is the first British woman to win a grand slam title since Virginia Wade’s Wimbledon victory in 1977.
She is the first qualifier, man or woman, to win a grand slam title.
At 18, she is the youngest grand slam champion since Maria Sharapova in 2004.

[Biffer]

Her first senior tour win is the US Open.

It’s mad.

I think and hope that the next ten years will be her and Fernandez knocking lumps off each other. Because if it is, it could be a golden age of women’s tennis.

[Biffer]

And she will make a shitload of sponsorship money in China.

[Tattie]

Pretty incredible. It's amazing to think that at 18 years old and having just turned professional, she could retire from tennis and never pick up a racquet ever again and would still be rich, famous and will have achieved something that will more than likely never be repeated.

[Biffer]

Just saw someone point out that even if she wins the tournament again next year, she’ll lose ranking points

[Kiwias]

Her first senior tour win is the US Open.

It’s mad.

I think and hope that the next ten years will be her and Fernandez knocking lumps off each other. Because if it is, it could be a golden age of women’s tennis.

Let's not forget Ashleigh Barty and Naomi 0saka (hoping she is back playing soon), both of whom are in their early-20s. It will be some golden age.

[Kawazaki]

*Disclaimer* - I don't know anything about tennis so apols for the noob question:

I know that a Canadian girl recently won the US open who was of Romanian stock, now there is Radacanu. Does Romania have a good pedigree in tennis? I know the Czechs were really good at tennis but never thought of Romania as a hotbed of tennis talent.

Depends if you think Romanian genes mean anything. She's probably never stepped foot in Romania.

IIRC she goes there 2 to 3 times a year to visit family and stay with her grandmother. she also says she loves romanian food and credits her work ethic to her romanian and chinese heritage

her two tennis idols are simona halep (romanian player) and Li Na (chinese tennis player). she speaks chinese and visits family in china. she loves watching taiwanese mandarin soapies. she holds both canadian and british nationality

She goes to Romania '2 or 3 times a year' and you think that's IIRC?

You don't.

[Lobby]

Depends if you think Romanian genes mean anything. She's probably never stepped foot in Romania.

IIRC she goes there 2 to 3 times a year to visit family and stay with her grandmother. she also says she loves romanian food and credits her work ethic to her romanian and chinese heritage

her two tennis idols are simona halep (romanian player) and Li Na (chinese tennis player). she speaks chinese and visits family in china. she loves watching taiwanese mandarin soapies. she holds both canadian and british nationality

She goes to Romania '2 or 3 times a year' and you think that's IIRC?

You don't.

For some reason he’s desperate to claim that she’s not really British.

[Rhubarb & Custard]

That's the BBC Sports personality of the year wrapped up, unless Lewis Hamilton wins more F1 titles than anyone else in history.

edit, I've forgotten the Olympians already, for shame

Cant think of anyone who can come close to her even in an Olympic year.

I thought that last night, though it's worth keeping in mind there's a group called women who tend to fare somewhat worse when garnering votes for SPOTY. So Harry Kane could yet walk it

[Calculon]

Depends if you think Romanian genes mean anything. She's probably never stepped foot in Romania.

IIRC she goes there 2 to 3 times a year to visit family and stay with her grandmother. she also says she loves romanian food and credits her work ethic to her romanian and chinese heritage

her two tennis idols are simona halep (romanian player) and Li Na (chinese tennis player). she speaks chinese and visits family in china. she loves watching taiwanese mandarin soapies. she holds both canadian and british nationality

She goes to Romania '2 or 3 times a year' and you think that's IIRC?

You don't.

Why on earth do you think she would have never set foot inside Romania? Does that really make any sense. And I do recall correctly

Raducanu is also close to her father's side of the family, always finding time for her grandmother Romania, whom she loves to visit quite often. She had once said in an interview, “My grandma, Mamiya, still lives in central Bucharest. I go back a couple times a year, stay with her, see her. It’s really nice. I love the food, to be honest. I mean, the food is unbelievable. And my grandma’s cooking is also something special. I do have ties to Bucharest

[Calculon]

IIRC she goes there 2 to 3 times a year to visit family and stay with her grandmother. she also says she loves romanian food and credits her work ethic to her romanian and chinese heritage

her two tennis idols are simona halep (romanian player) and Li Na (chinese tennis player). she speaks chinese and visits family in china. she loves watching taiwanese mandarin soapies. she holds both canadian and british nationality

She goes to Romania '2 or 3 times a year' and you think that's IIRC?

You don't.

For some reason he’s desperate to claim that she’s not really British.

2 sides of the same coin. Pathetic people who can't accept she is British and pathetic people who get upset if her non British heritage is brought up

[Openside]

Emma is now ranked 23 in the world. Leylah 28.

Some more insane stats:

Emma’s professional tennis career only began in full three months ago.
She has never been a direct entrant to a grand slam main draw.
she is yet to play a tour-level three set match and she has not even won a match at a WTA tour event.
She started the summer ranked 366th and the 12th-ranked British player; She is now the world No 23 and the British No. 1
This is only her second grand slam main draw appearance and no woman in the Open era had ever won in so few attempts.
She is the first British woman to win a grand slam title since Virginia Wade’s Wimbledon victory in 1977.
She is the first qualifier, man or woman, to win a grand slam title.
At 18, she is the youngest grand slam champion since Maria Sharapova in 2004.

Becker in 85?

[Biffer]

Emma is now ranked 23 in the world. Leylah 28.

Some more insane stats:

Emma’s professional tennis career only began in full three months ago.
She has never been a direct entrant to a grand slam main draw.
she is yet to play a tour-level three set match and she has not even won a match at a WTA tour event.
She started the summer ranked 366th and the 12th-ranked British player; She is now the world No 23 and the British No. 1
This is only her second grand slam main draw appearance and no woman in the Open era had ever won in so few attempts.
She is the first British woman to win a grand slam title since Virginia Wade’s Wimbledon victory in 1977.
She is the first qualifier, man or woman, to win a grand slam title.
At 18, she is the youngest grand slam champion since Maria Sharapova in 2004.

Becker in 85?

Becker was ranked no 20 when he won Wimbledon.

[Biffer]

Better comparison is Mark Edmonson. He was ranked outside the top 200 when he won the Australian open.

[Lobby]

Some more insane stats:

Emma’s professional tennis career only began in full three months ago.
She has never been a direct entrant to a grand slam main draw.
she is yet to play a tour-level three set match and she has not even won a match at a WTA tour event.
She started the summer ranked 366th and the 12th-ranked British player; She is now the world No 23 and the British No. 1
This is only her second grand slam main draw appearance and no woman in the Open era had ever won in so few attempts.
She is the first British woman to win a grand slam title since Virginia Wade’s Wimbledon victory in 1977.
She is the first qualifier, man or woman, to win a grand slam title.
At 18, she is the youngest grand slam champion since Maria Sharapova in 2004.

Becker in 85?

Becker was ranked no 20 when he won Wimbledon.

Becker was the first unseeded player to win Wimbledon, but he was in the main draw and didn’t have to qualify.

[Rhubarb & Custard]

I have in mind it was commented Becker's win at Wimbledon was also his 2nd Wimbledon. And Becker was physically very developed and playing against people who barely knew where the gym was never mind actually used it. Granted what Becker did was still amazing stuff, just not quite as amazing

[Kawazaki]

2 sides of the same coin. Pathetic people who can't accept she is British and pathetic people who get upset if her non British heritage is brought up

You're the only person on this thread that meets any of that criteria.

[Biffer]

Becker in 85?

Becker was ranked no 20 when he won Wimbledon.

Becker was the first unseeded player to win Wimbledon, but he was in the main draw and didn’t have to qualify.

Yeah, they only seeded 1-16 at that point.

[Dogbert]

Jesus , Medvedev is ripping a new new Arse hole

Can the Joker win the next three sets ?

My money is on No - Jokers movement is really poor

[BnM]

Ok it's been a shit final but booing

[Dogbert]

Ok it's been a shit final but booing

Nah , Mednedev was fantastic , the crowd however .........