Emma Raducanu

[Elwood Blues]

Re: Emma Raducanu

Quite amazing to read his comments. Every commentator and pro I've heard all said the time out was enforced, posters on here have tried to re-echo what was being said by those who know the game, yet JR stubbornly believes his own opinion, despite the evidence demonstrating he was talking out of his arse again.

Just being a pedant like you with your stats I have a couple of posts before this one quoted the actual Grand Slam Rule on Medical Time Outs for Bleeding.

Lets see him argue with that. No doubt he will anyway. Perhaps he will say she secreted a blood capsule somewhere and broke it open on her leg without being spotted by the multifarious cameras !!

He can'

[Toadstool]

Re: Emma Raducanu

Fantastic achievement for someone so young. As for the bleeding, you can see the blood had seeped through in the photos at the award ceremony.

[goats]

Re: Emma Raducanu

Rafa Nadal has been mentioned already in this thread I believe, but the truth is that, if anything, Emma Raducanu, as an eighteen year old qualifier, was more dominant in winning this tournament than Nadal was in winning all those French Opens when he was at his peak. It’s an incredible achievement and, surely, it’s not going to be a one off - even if is, no one can ever take this exceptional achievement away from her.

Sport once again proves its ability to dumbfound anyone who thinks they’ve seen it all.

Didn’t drop a set….that’s amazing. Other players have taken almost 10 minute “toilet breaks” at key times in games, the Greek guy did it v Murray, it’s allowed but it halts the rhythm of the game. I don’t think it did for Emma, it could have easily gone the other way like she alluded to when speaking after saying I’m just glad I didn’t do a double fault. There were so many break points you can’t just refer to one

[Trigger]

Re: Emma Raducanu

Regarding the time out, I couldn't imagine a worse time to have one, having to think about serving at break point down when already missed match point.

I'm sure if Fernandez had a time out then Raducanu would also have been frustrated.

Fernandez I thought missed a trick, she could have stayed focused at her end and maybe tried to gee the crowd up. Instead she wound herself up more and more, understandable though.

[Baloo]

Re: Emma Raducanu

Has anybody ranked 150 or below ever won a major singles title before?

[bobh]

Re: Emma Raducanu

Has anybody ranked 150 or below ever won a major singles title before?

She's the first qualifier to win one, so probably no.

[goats]

Re: Emma Raducanu

Forgot she withdrew from Wimbledon a few months ago too citing breathing difficulties…..which probably comes from adrenaline or being overwhelmed and not being able to get it together, which makes doing this in New York all the more incredible. Tennis is a lonely game, it’s just you and your thoughts going round and round in your head constantly…the ones that can control this go on to be the winners.

[Undercoverinwurzelland]

Re: Emma Raducanu

Absolutely incredible achievement, regardless of some of the stupid comments on this thread.

[Undercoverinwurzelland]

Re: Emma Raducanu

How is this 'adopt a star'?

The magic of her story is that she has won from nowhere. She was hardly known six months ago, when she was also competing in tournaments as a Brit.

And she's lived in the UK since she was 2.

[lardy]

Re: Emma Raducanu

Has anybody ranked 150 or below ever won a major singles title before?

I think Wales Bales did.

[Stanmore Bluebird]

Re: Emma Raducanu

And she's lived in the UK since she was 2.

She is British as far as I am concerned. Just like Mo Farah is.

[the other bob wilson]

Re: Emma Raducanu

I think Wales Bales did.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Re: Emma Raducanu

If some kid fleeing persecution and torture in Iraq or Afghanistan settles in Cardiff as an 8 year old , signs for CCFC as a youngster and eventually gets called up to play for Wales

He's fecking welsh

[Eric the Half a Bee]

Re: Emma Raducanu

Has anybody ranked 150 or below ever won a major singles title before?

Ivanisevic was ranked 125th in 2001 when he won Wimbledon as a wildcard, but he was hardly an unknown with no experience of grand slam events.

[Elwood Blues]

Re: Emma Raducanu

Ivanisevic was ranked 125th in 2001 when he won Wimbledon as a wildcard, but he was hardly an unknown with no experience of grand slam events.

Kim Clijsters was the first unseeded woman to win the US Open in 2009 but she actually had no ranking as she was just coming back from retirement and was given a wildcard (which put her straight into the main tournament missing qualifying) because she had, of course been world number 1 and was a previous winner of the event.

She then lost in the second round of the Luxembourg Open, and I read somewhere that Raducanu the other week applied to enter the qualifiers for that event.

I bet they will welcome her with open arms now!!