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Emotional Novak Djokovic claims a victory he feared would never come in US Open defeat.

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Amid his most bitter defeat, Novak Djokovic claimed the victory he feared would never come his way.

On a night when he dared to believe he could become a sporting immortal by securing a Calendar Grand Slam by adding US Open glory to the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon titles he had already won in 2021, Russia’s Daniil Medvedev shattered his dreams with a convincing 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 victory in the last major final of this remarkable tennis year.

This was as convincing a victory as anyone has inflicted on Djokovic in recent years and yet as the tears flowed for the world No 1 at the changeover before Medvedev served out the match to claim his first major title, the Serbian took solace from a moment that clearly touched him.

He may never again have a chance to complete a Calendar Grand Slam, but this was a night when he received the adulation of a New York crowd that has so often delighted in his misfortune down the years.

Djokovic has always been the pantomime villain in matches against his old foes Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal in New York and even in a year when he was reaching out for tennis history, the fans were often cheering for his opponent over the course of the last two weeks.

Yet on a night when Djokovic was beaten in a manner few believed was possible, the spectators inside Arthur Ashe Stadium rose to salute a great champion and salute his achievements as one of the game’s all-time greats.

This was a level of support that has often eluded him and while his army of devoted fans on social media persistently insist that Djokovic doesn’t need the support of the tennis public, this was an occasion that confirmed they are misguided in that assumption.

Everyone wants to be accepted in life and when you have achieved as much on and off the court thanks to his inspiring Novak Djokovic Foundation, the respect he has long been due has often been missing and as he gave a gracious speech on court, his words confirmed what this reception had meant to him.

“I was thinking in both scenarios, visualising myself standing here in front of you guys and what would I say,” said Djokovic. “I would like to say that tonight, even though I have not won the match, my heart is filled with joy and I am the happiest man alive because you guys made me feel very special on the court.

“You guys touched my soul. I have never felt like this is New York. I love you guys. Thank you so much for your support and everything you have done tonight for me. I love you and I will see you soon. Thank you.”

They were words delivered with raw emotion from a champion who has waited so long to get an ovation such as this in New York and maybe now that the pressure of the Calendar Grand Slam pursuit has gone, Djokovic will return to next year’s US Open with a very different vibe around him.

He is still highly likely to end his career with more Grand Slam titles than Federer and Nadal, yet this was a night when the gas tank was empty for Novak, with Friday’s semi-final against Alexander Zverev playing a part in that process.

This match has echoes of his 2013 Wimbledon final defeat against Andy Murray, as a long semi-final against Juan Martin del Porto drained his energy reserves and forced him to play a different game in the final, trying to keep points short and win in double-quick time.

Against an opponent of Medvedev’s class, Djokovic’s efforts to serve and volley his way to victory in this final were always likely to come up short, but he will come again and will be keen to claim revenge if he plays Medvedev in Grand Slam finals next year.

The debate over who is the greatest of all time is on hold for now and while will take some time to get over this defeat, Djokovic feels he a champion in the eyes of the US Open fans at last and that, clearly, was a prize that means so much to him. 

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Daniil Medvedev has been quite happy to go under the radar. When he made a run to the final of the US Open in 2019, it was, in his own words, a “crazy” fortnight in which he became a pantomime villain to the Flushing Meadows crowd before winning them round with his play and his good humour.

This time he has reached the final with the minimum of fuss. He has only dropped one set, an aberration in his quarter-final win over Dutch surprise package Botic van de Zandschulp, and failed to enrage anyone too much other than his opponents with his relentless baselinery (and the odd umpire).

He can now upset the apple cart in a big way. Novak Djokovic has won 27 matches at grand slam tournaments this year and is a significant favourite to win a 28th. Doing so would make him only the second man in the Open era to complete the Grand Slam, winning all four majors in the same year, Rod Laver’s 1969 effort being the only previous instance in the men’s game. Few people expect him not to join the Australian.

Medvedev is now the only man with a chance to stop him. It is a mammoth task, but it is one the Russian believes he is up to – and with good reason.

Once bitten, twice shy

Djokovic himself knows that his reputation precedes him when he walks onto court with the so-called Next Generation of which Medvedev, world No 2, is currently the best.

“Probably all these big matches that I won, big titles over the years, have built that kind of aura around me that players know there’s a never-die spirit with me, especially when I play grand slams,” Djokovic said after triumphing in a five-set epic over Alexander Zverev.

“They know that until the last shot, things can turn around, which was the case in several occasions throughout my career.

“So I’m glad that my opponents think of me that way. I want them to feel that they are under extreme pressure when I’m facing them on a big stage in grand slams.”

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The hope for Medvedev fans is that this will no longer be a point of intimidation for the Russian. He has played two grand slam finals before, including one against Djokovic himself earlier this year. He was dismantled in Melbourne, winning just nine games, and now has some idea of what it takes to get close to the Serbian on that stage. The mental hurdle of beating Djokovic in a slam final might be slightly smaller than it previously was.

“I was kind of not ready for it,” Medvedev himself said this week.

“So now I am.

“I think the thing that I understand… I always give my best, but I feel like I didn’t leave my heart on the court in Melbourne. Even if of course I wanted to, there was something not turning up this match.

“That’s what I’m going to try to do on Arthur Ashe with hopefully 100 per cent of fans. No matter the score, I’m just going to turn up the heat, if I can say, and try to do my best, even more than what I did in Melbourne.”

Physical fitness no concern

Medvedev reminded us, in his press conference before the final, that he had been carrying an injury when he faced Rafael Nadal in the 2019 US Open final. He had sustained a one-centimetre tear to his quad muscle against Stan Wawrinka, but managed to nurse it to the final, where he gave a fine account of himself over five sets in the second longest US Open final in history.

Taking on Djokovic of course, perhaps the most physically demanding task in modern tennis, is a whole other challenge, but he will at least come in as fresh as he could realistically hope to be, so that when the world No 1 turns on the grind and pushes the rally count past 50, as he did and the pivotal moment of his semi-final against Alexander Zverev, Medvedev will hope he can hang tough.

The match will also get underway at 4pm local time in New York, when temperatures are expected to be around 30 degrees Celsius. For all his physical fitness, the heat did get to Djokovic in Tokyo when he lost to Zverev and could become a factor once again.

Nullify the Djokovic serve

Tactically, Medvedev is known as one of the best. He is often called a great problem-solver on the court, someone who has tactical ability to match his technical ability, especially mid-match.

His pre-match gameplan though must involve a way to stop Djokovic’s serve being as effective as it has been against his six previous opponents. The 20-time grand slam champion has rebuilt his serve on a number of occasions through his career, as much because of surgery on his arm as a need to find extra free points, and is no one of the best in the world. It is not a serve with huge amounts of power, but tactically and at the big moments, it is extremely potent.

Against Zverev, we saw Djokovic serve-and-volley on all bar two of the 12 break points he faced, and it was extremely effective. Medvedev is a much harder player to volley against because he hits the ball from much deeper in the court and with more top spin, especially on the forehand wing, so the Russian will need a plan to deal with Djokovic at the net but also Djokovic at the baseline, since he may change up his tactics.

He will also want to unsettle Djokovic on serve. Twice he double-faulted on break point against Zverev, suggesting pressure can be applied to his second serve, but Medvedev will need to land some body blows to the confidence of the top seed in order to open up those wounds.

Only the perfect game, and maybe more, will beat Djokovic on current form. Medvedev thinks that’s what he has been building towards.

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Rafael Nadal on crutches as he gives first fitness update since ending 2021 season early.

Rafael Nadal is on the road to recovery after undergoing treatment on the troublesome foot that forced him to withdraw from the US Open and end his 2021 campaign early.

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The 20-time Grand Slam winner initially injured his left foot during the French Open and then skipped Wimbledon and the Tokyo Olympics in order to be ready for the North American hard-court swing.

He made his return at the Washington Open, but aggravated the injury and was forced to pull out of the final Grand Slam of the year at Flushing Meadows and the remainder of the season.

“I am confident that I will recover 100% and I will be able to fight again for the most important things,” he said in August.

The Spaniard, though, has finally given his fans an update with a post on social media showing him on crutches, although his team have confirmed that he did not undergo surgery.

“I can tell you I was in Barcelona with my team and medical team to have a treatment to my foot which will need a few days rest and some weeks out of action,” he said.

“I’m already back home and starting the recovery.”

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Losing AirPods, watched by the Queen and chocolate to celebrate - welcome to the world of Emma Raducanu.

 

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Night had fallen across Flushing Meadows when Emma Raducanu, playing up to her queen of New York status with relish, swapped her red-and-blue playing garb for a dazzling black cocktail dress. The sartorial switch conjured quite the mood, as she lost herself in the sensation of being the US Open champion. At 18, she was three years shy of legal drinking age in this city, but the headiest of achievements still called for a certain sass. “The day’s going great,” she grinned, a streak of mischief emerging through her customary cool. “How’s yours?”

It was a disarming scene as she finally sat down to reflect on what had happened to her. She began this tournament as the self-effacing London schoolgirl chancing her arm in qualifying, and she ended it the belle of the ball, giving a winner’s interview in her finest evening wear while a half-dozen security guards kept watch to the side.

The experience could easily have overwhelmed her. Instead, she leapt headlong into it, promising to sustain the same devil-may-care abandon that had brought her here. “I’ve got no idea what’s going on, but anything that comes my way I am ready to deal with,” she said. “I don't feel any pressure. I'm still only 18 – I'm just having a free swing. That's how I faced every match here in the States. It got me this trophy, so I don't think I should change a thing.”

Long may her insouciance endure. Raducanu’s unstoppable tear to this maiden major title redrew the parameters not just for British sport, but for tennis globally. For a qualifier to become the champion was without parallel in either the men’s or women’s game. That she should do so without conceding a set, without even coming anywhere near a tie-break, truly stretched credulity. The ace that she fired past Canada’s Leylah Fernandez polished off arguably the greatest individual display ever produced by a British athlete.

 

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Even she could not help but marvel at the summer that changed everything. From sitting her maths and economics A-levels in Bromley to finding her name lit up in neon across New York? It is, in every sense, the road less travelled. “In the beginning, Arthur Ashe felt extremely big and I think I was a little bit thrown off,” she laughed. “It took a bit of adjusting, but I absolutely love playing in front of that crowd. Even if it’s not always for me, I love hearing the noise. I didn’t look up to the top very often, but when I did I took it all in. I was very surprised by the number of people who wanted to watch me. It’s crazy to think that three months ago, I was in an exam hall. Now I’m on the biggest court in the world.”

For all that she amazed under the lights on Ashe, her performances in the hours that followed were equally eye-catching. At one stage, she conveyed a message of gratitude to the people of Shenyang, the northeastern Chinese city from where her mother Renee originates. Plus, she did it all in fluent Mandarin. She is the type of teenage polymath who can make everybody else feel inadequate.

You half-wondered, watching all this unfold, if this might be the last day of Raducanu’s age of innocence, if she had any grasp on the hurricane of hype her feat would unleash. It was telling how she reacted, for example, to her £1.81 million in prize money. As she was handed her oversized cheque on the podium, she turned back to the team, nonplussed as to what she was supposed to do with it.

There would, she assured, be no material-girl indulgences. “Before my first-round qualifying match, I lost my AirPods three minutes before I was called to court. I was running around looking for them. I have been telling myself before each match, ‘If you win, you can buy yourself another pair of AirPods.’ That has been the running joke.”

Her youth was self-evident as she described, to a small gaggle of British reporters off a basement corridor on Ashe, what this moment meant to her. Never was she so animated as when asked how many Instagram followers she thought she had gained. “Well, yesterday I was on 650,000,” she said, before being shown a phone that revealed she had just broken a million. “No! What? It has changed to an M now, not a K – that’s incredible. I can’t believe it, I got an M. Wow.”

From an A* in maths to an M on social media: life moves fast in Raducanu’s world. But refreshingly, her close confidants, including coach Andrew Richardson and agent Chris Helliar, ensured she did not go straight to scrolling through her countless online plaudits. Even as Marcus Rashford and Gary Lineker clamoured to glad-hand her, she was given the space for a more intimate celebration, as she tried to come to terms with what she had done.

One exception was made for a missive from the Queen, which congratulated Raducanu on her “outstanding” play, while spelling out in unusual detail the monarch’s conviction that “your performance, and that of your opponent Leylah Fernandez, will inspire the next generation of tennis players.” Deferential in her response, she was visibly moved. “I’m incredibly honoured, just blown away. I never in my life thought Her Majesty would watch one of my matches. It’s so special. I’m so grateful to have received that message.”

As her advisors weighed up how many US talk-show invitations to accept, Raducanu could not wait to escape her bubble. Although a young woman of prodigious psychological strength, three weeks of micro-managing every detail in her routine have taken a toll. “In three weeks I haven’t seen one sight,” she said. “I’ve just been hiding in my room with Uber Eats. But I want to check out Wall Street, the Twin Towers memorial. We have a lot of good recommendations for food spots, too, so I’m going to try to hit up as many as I can in one day.”

Raducanu is too decent a soul to call out the commentators, John McEnroe chief among them, who openly doubted her resilience when she retired from this year’s Wimbledon with breathing difficulties. But she could hardly disguise her satisfaction at this staggering encore in only her second major appearance. “I personally don’t think it was a mental issue at Wimbledon. Here, I’ve shown a lot of toughness to face adversity. Staying calm and staying in the moment has helped me through. You need a lot of mental strength to do it. I think that says something in itself.”

 

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What it says is that Raducanu is the rarest star in the sporting firmament. Quite apart from being a racing certainty for Sports Personality of the Year, she radiates a poise and an inner peace unheard-of at her age. She has elevated the profile of her sport beyond British tennis’ wildest imaginings. She has enraptured a TV audience of over nine million live on Saturday night primetime. But more than all this, she has mapped out here in New York the most extraordinary way to win, combining courage with a humility, grace and style that suggest she is surely built to last.

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Emma Raducanu hails support of Virginia Wade and Tim Henman as Queen leads tributes to Britain's new sporting superstar.

 

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The Queen led tributes to Emma Raducanu after the 18-year-old completed one of the great sporting fairytales to win the US Open.

"It's an absolute dream," beamed Raducanu, who will shoot up from 150th to number 23 in the world rankings on Monday. "I've always dreamed of winning a Grand Slam. You just say these things.

"You say, I want to win a Grand Slam. But to have the belief I did, and actually executing, winning a Grand Slam, I can't believe it."

Britain's monarch was moved to write an open letter to Raducanu, saying her triumph was a "remarkable achievement at such a young age".

A host of leading figures in sport, politics and entertainment also expressed astonishment. Playing in just her second grand slam tournament, Raducanu was sitting her A-levels little more than three months ago having not played a competitive match for more than a year but she has burst onto the big stage like no-one before her.

“I send my congratulations to you on your success in winning the United States Open Tennis Championships," the Queen wrote in her note issued by Buckingham Palace.

“It is a remarkable achievement at such a young age, and is testament to your hard work and dedication.

“I have no doubt your outstanding performance, and that of your opponent Leylah Fernandez, will inspire the next generation of tennis players. I send my warmest good wishes to you and your many supporters.”

Prince William and his wife Catherine, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, posted on Twitter: "Huge congratulations @EmmaRaducanu on your stunning performances and historic Grand Slam victory! Incredible –we are all so proud of you."

Heir-to-the-throne Prince Charles and his wife Camilla offered their praise as well: "Congratulations to @EmmaRaducanu on your #USOpen win - what a fantastic achievement! We are all so proud."

Despite what the statistics might say, Raducanu insisted that winning the US Open was not a easy as it might have looked.

"I'd say even though I didn't on paper drop a set, I think I faced a lot of adversity in every single one of my matches," she said. "I can pick moments where I was down.

"Just to come through those are important.

"I think what I did very well this tournament was press in the moments that I really needed to."

As Raducanu was handed her trophy and $2.5 million cheque, she said: "First of all, I really want to congratulate Leylah and her team on an incredible fortnight. She played some incredible tennis and beat some of the top players in the world so it was an incredibly difficult match but I thought the level was extremely high, and I hope that we play each other and many more tournaments and hopefully finals.

"For the three weeks I spent in New York, I would say that having a such a supportive team like I have over there – my coach, the LTA, my agent, everyone in that team and everyone back home who isn't here but watching on TV – thank you so much for all your support over the years.

"And most of all I would say thank you to everyone here, New York. Thank you all for making me feel so at home from my first qualifying match, all the way to the final. I've loved playing in front of you and you've really spurred me on in some very difficult moments and I hope that me and Leylah put on a good performance today."

 

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Raducanu went on to hail the "legends" that had come before her, name-checking Billie Jean King, as well as Britons Virginia Wade and Tim Henman.

"The future of women's tennis and just the depth of the game right now is so great," she said. "I think every single player in the women's draw definitely has a shot of winning at any tournament. I hope that the next generation can follow in the footsteps of some of the greatest legends, for example, Billie Jean right here and everyone that's at the top of the game right now."

Raducanu added that "it means so much to have Virginia here and also Tim". "To have such British legends and icons – for me to follow in their footsteps, it really helps and definitely gave me the belief that I could actually do it," she added.

When asked how she held her composure, she added: "Leylah was always going to play great tennis, always going to fight – that's just the competitor she is and that's why she's here in the final so I knew that I'd have to dig deep... I was just praying not for a double fault, but we got through it, and I think just staying in the moment and focusing on what I had to do and my process and the mindset just really helped in those tough times."

 

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Raducanu said she had "weird feelings" ahead of the match – but she "felt completely at home" when she emerged on court.

"Yesterday and this morning there were weird feelings I couldn't quite put my finger on," she later told Amazon Prime. "I didn't know what it was – but I think that's just normal. When I came out on court, I felt completely at home. I felt like business as usual. I was just focusing on one point at a time. I think the level was extremely high. Both of us are playing some unbelievable tennis and I had to fight really hard to just cling on to that first set and then keep my nose in front of the second."

Fernandez, meanwhile, paid tribute to Raducanu's "amazing" performance. "It's going to be hard to recuperate but Emma played amazing so congratulations to Emma and her team. But I'm very proud of myself with the way I play these past two weeks, and especially having the crowd. The New York crowd – it's definitely been special for me to be here in the finals and having you cheering me on."

She added: "On this day, it was especially hard for New York, and everyone around the United States. I just want to say that I hope I can be as strong and as resilient as New York has been in the past 20 years."

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Changing direction, seizing control and keeping her cool: Three key phases where Emma Raducanu won the US Open.

 

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The first sit-down

The watching Tim Henman, who has been cited by Emma Raducanu as an inspiration in New York, told Amazon Prime viewers that he had spotted quite a few shanks and miscues during the warm-up hit between the two teenagers at the start of Saturday night’s final. He suspected nerves on both sides. But then, as soon the umpire called play, Raducanu and Leylah Fernandez flew at each other with high intensity and superb ball-control.

As a spectator in the lower decks of the cavernous Arthur Ashe Stadium, you have to be there for the start or you cannot enter until the first changeover, which comes after three games. Latecomers must have rued their error, as they were not allowed in until 34 points had elapsed. The clock was already standing at 23 minutes. Each player had inflicted one break of serve, leaving Raducanu 2-1 ahead.

Fernandez was behind, but she had showed her class on the second break point she faced, stringing together four extraordinary retrieval shots before switching the momentum of the rally and firing a forehand winner into the open court. She is immensely quick over the ground, with delicate hands and a feisty attitude that belies her slender 5ft 6in frame. To combat this extra skill and court-coverage, Raducanu played more aggressively than in her previous matches, taking on more risky down-the-line shots and making fewer steady, conservative crosscourt drives.

“Emma did say she was going to go down the line because that’s the only way to win points,” explained Martina Navratilova on commentary. “Crosscourt takes too long to get there. You have to go down the line for the ball to get there quicker.”

After the match, Raducanu herself made the same point in a slightly different way. Asked by Henman to explain her tactical plan, she replied “Changing direction as early as possible, because if you gave it to her [in the same place] a couple of times, she would change [direction] on you and you were running. And she is extremely good at that.”

The seizing of control

Anyone who has played so much as a club doubles match knows how heavy the racket grows at moments of crisis or significance. So it is hard to work out which is more extraordinary: the balance, timing and core strength that Raducanu uses to produce her venomous winners, or the mental strength that allows her to conceive and deploy them on the biggest points.

Either way, she clinched her two crucial breaks with a pair of brutal punches. The first came as Fernandez served to stay in the first set at 4-5, and took the form of a screaming forehand up the line. The second was a dismissive crosscourt backhand return winner to bring the second set back on serve at 2-2.

Raducanu’s all-round game has been a revelation in this event. It has no obvious chinks, apart from a disinclination to hit overheads – an issue that also afflicts male world No 1 Novak Djokovic. But it is Raducanu’s return that has shone above all. Coming into the final, she had won 62 per cent of her return points in the tournament.

When her opponent misses a first serve, she steps up to meet the second serve inside the baseline. Her preparation is extremely compact on both wings, and her swings short and punchy. As a result, she can meet the ball as it is still on the way up and hurry her opponent. If the second serve drops short, or comes in slowly, she tends to aim for a clean winner. If not, she bangs it back deep and central with such venom that her opponent often misses with the next shot.

The blood injury

The sense of destiny at work was only underlined by the bizarre stoppage that interrupted the last game of the match. Raducanu was about to face a break point as she served for victory at 6-4, 5-3. But then she looked down at her left knee and saw a stream of blood trickling down to her ankle.

 

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On the 30-30 point of that tense game, Fernandez had struck such a superb backhand up the line that Raducanu contorted herself into an unusual position as she slid across the baseline looking for a desperate retrieval lob. She did at least manage to put the ball back into play, but the more significant issue was that she took the skin off her left knee in the process.

Raducanu looked at chair umpire Marijana Veljovic, who instructed her to sit down and wait for the trainer. Fernandez became extremely agitated at this point, berating the supervisor – who happened to be former British No 1 Clare Wood – and complaining that the delay was hindering her. After the match, she explained that “I didn't know how serious her fall was … It was just too bad that it happened in that specific moment, with me with the momentum. But it's sports, it's tennis. Just got to move on.”

The rules on this point are clear. “If a player is bleeding,” says the grand-slam rulebook, “the chair umpire must stop play as soon as possible, and the sports physiotherapist must be called to the court … [the] chair umpire may allow up to a total of five minutes to assure control of the bleeding.”

In this instance, the stoppage lasted between four and five minutes. And when play resumed, Raducanu saved that break point – plus the next one – before clinching victory with an ace.

From a British perspective, this tournament began with Andy Murray’s passionate objections to Stefanos Tsitsipas’s bathroom breaks, and finished with Raducanu calmly taking an obligatory medical time-out in her stride. In between, it was a magical, unforgettable fortnight.

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How Emma Raducanu kept her composure following cut to knee as Lelyah Fernandez fretted.

 

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There may not have been many public tears from Britain's newest sporting superstar, but Emma Raducanu gave blood and sweat as she fought her way to an incredible US Open victory.

The New York final was delayed for several minutes late in the second set after Raducanu slipped on the hard court, cutting her knee. With blood trickling down her leg, she was bandaged up by a medical attendant while opponent Lelyah Fernandez questioned the tournament referee.

Raducanu did not let the pause interrupt her progress and completed victory soon after with an ace to win the championship

Asked about the medical timeout in the post-final press conference, Fernandez said she acted "in the heat of the moment".

"Well, I honestly did not know what was happening with Emma," the Canadian said. "I didn't know how serious her fall was, so that's why I went to see the official and ask her about it. You know what, it just happened in the heat of the moment.

"It was just too bad that it happened in that specific moment with me, with the momentum. But it's sports, it's tennis. Just got to move on."

On Saturday night, explaining what happened in her own press conference, Raducanu said: "It was a pretty incredible point. She hit an amazing backhand line. I was giving it everything I had. I fell. My knee cut pretty bad.

"I didn't actually want to stop because I thought it would disrupt my rhythm, seeing as I was going to be serving 30-40, and to have such a long break after a point.

"But I couldn't play on. I wasn't allowed to because my knee was, like, gushing with blood. The chair umpire said I needed to get it treated right away. I guess I just went over and was really trying to think what my patterns of play were going to be, what I was going to try to execute.

"Going out there facing a break point after a two-, three-minute disruption isn't easy. I think I managed for sure to really pull off the clutch plays when I needed to."

What happened

With the second set at 5-3 to the Brit, Raducanu slips trying to return Fernandez's backhand.

 

Bleed - Amazon Prime

 

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In sliding across the court, Raducanu cuts her knee and begins to bleed.

 

Bleed - Amazon Prime

Raducanu receives medical treatment to stem the flow of blood. A medical timeout is called.

 

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Fernandez remonstrates with the tournament referee while the physio patches up Raducanu's knee.

 

Fernandez complains

Radacanu resumes after being patched up and goes on to win the second set and, with it, the tournament.

 

Raducanu's knee afterwards - Shutterstock

What the rules say

Grand slam tournament rules say the match umpire must 'stop play as soon as possible' with a medical timeout if necessary. Any blood spillage must be cleared up before play can resume.

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A disappointed Leylah Fernandez reflects upon an incredible tournament despite her loss in the final to Emma Raducanu.

 

 

Emma heads up to her box to celebrate after winning the 2021 US Open.

 

 

Emma Raducanu speaks to the Press, fresh from her astonishing victory in the final of the 2021 US Open.

 

 

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Trophy Presentation | Women's Doubles Final | 2021 US Open.

 

 

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Novak Djokovic | Pre-Match Interview | 2021 US Open Final.

 

 

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Desirae Krawczyk & Joe Salisbury reflect upon their win in the US Open 2021 mixed doubles final.

 

 

Joe Salisbury & Rajeev Ram Press Conference | 2021 US Open Final.

 

 

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Trophy presentation following the 2021 US Open mixed doubles final, as Desirae Krawczyk & Joe Salisbury claimed the title.

 

 

Felix Auger-Aliassime reflects upon his semifinal loss to Daniil Medvedev.

 

 

Daniil Medvedev talks about his semifinal win over Felix Auger-Aliassime.

 

 

Alexander Zverev reflects upon his loss in five sets to Novak Djokovic in the semifinal of the 2021 US Open.

 

 

Novak Djokovic reacts to his thrilling victory over Alexander Zverev in the seminfinal of the 2021 US Open.

 

 

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More photos.

Spectators gesture to Russia's Daniil Medvedev as he throws tennis balls into the stands after winning his 2021 US Open Tennis tournament men's semifinal match against Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York, on September 10, 2021. (Photo by Kena Betancur / AFP) (Photo by KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images)

Russia's Daniil Medvedev reacts as he throws tennis balls into the stands after winning his 2021 US Open Tennis tournament men's semifinal match against Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York, on September 10, 2021. (Photo by Kena Betancur / AFP) (Photo by KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images)

Russia's Daniil Medvedev (L) hugs Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime at the net after winning their 2021 US Open Tennis tournament men's semifinal match at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York, on September 10, 2021. (Photo by Kena Betancur / AFP) (Photo by KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images)

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 10: Actress Danai Gurira (R) watches as Felix Auger-Aliassime of Canada plays against Daniil Medvedev of Russia during their Men’s Single semifinal match on Day Twelve of the 2021 US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on September 10, 2021 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 10: Rod Laver (L), former tennis player, watches as Felix Auger-Aliassime of Canada plays against Daniil Medvedev of Russia during their Men’s Single semifinal match on Day Twelve of the 2021 US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on September 10, 2021 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 10: Rod Laver, former tennis player, waves to the crowd as Felix Auger-Aliassime of Canada plays against Daniil Medvedev of Russia during their Men’s Single semifinal match on Day Twelve of the 2021 US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on September 10, 2021 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 10: (L-R) Jamie Murray of Great Britain and Bruno Soares of Brazil pose with the runner-up trophy alongside Joe Salisbury of Great Britain and Rajeev Ram of the United States who celebrate with the championship trophy after their Men’s Double final on Day Twelve of the 2021 US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on September 10, 2021 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images)

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 10: Emma Raducanu of Great Britain smiles during a training session on Day Twelve of the 2021 US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on September 10, 2021 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)

TOPSHOT - Britain's Emma Raducanu reacts after winning her 2021 US Open Tennis tournament women's semifinal match against Greece's Maria Sakkari at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York, on September 9, 2021. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP) (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 09: Leylah Annie Fernandez of Canada celebrates defeating Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus during her Women’s Singles semifinals match on Day Eleven of the 2021 US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on September 09, 2021 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)

Former British professional tennis player Virginia Wade leaves after the 2021 US Open Tennis tournament women's semifinal match between Greece's Maria Sakkari and Britain's Emma Raducanu at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York, on September 9, 2021. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP) (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)

Canada's Leylah Fernandez (L) shakes hands with Belarus's Aryna Sabalenka after winning their 2021 US Open Tennis tournament women's semifinal match at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York, on September 9, 2021. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP) (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 09: Steve Nash of Canada and head coach of the Brooklyn Nets, smiles after Leylah Annie Fernandez of Canada defeated Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus during her Women’s Singles semifinals match on Day Eleven of the 2021 US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on September 09, 2021 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 09: Actress Wanda Sykes and her wife Alex Niedbalski watch as Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus plays against Leylah Annie Fernandez of Canada during their Women’s Singles semifinals match on Day Eleven of the 2021 US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on September 09, 2021 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)

Daniil Medvedev's on-court interview following his win agaisnt Felix Auger-Aliassime in the 2021 US Open semifinals.

 

 

How many times has Djokovic lost in the semifinals @ US Open? How about in the finals? And to whom? Lost THREE semifinals and FIVE finals. Which one will it be in 2021? None? Final?

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School, sponsors and coach: your Emma Radacanu questions answered.

 

School, sponsors and coach: your Emma Radacanu questions answered. - GETTY IMAGES

Emma Raducanu has made a remarkable run all the way to the final of the US Open. The British teenager first came into the public eye with some impressive displays at Wimbledon but her performance at Flushing Meadows has wildly exceeded all expectations.

Here is all you need to know about British sport's new superstar.

What school did Raducanu attend?

Raducanu attended Newstead Wood School, a "highly selective" grammar school in Bromley, south-east London. The 18-year-old sat her A-level exams just before her exploits at Wimbledon. Raducanu attended Bickley Primary School before moving onto Newstead Wiid.

Which brands sponsor Raducanu?

The commercial side of Raducanu's life is run by super-agency IMG, who have a long-standing relationship with tennis stars including Maria Sharapova, Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka.

Raducanu has a clothing and shoe sponsorship contract with Nike, and a racquet deal with Wilson.

The teenager is believed to be especially marketable due to her mixed heritage – she was born in Canada to a Chinese mother and Romanian father before moving to England when she was two. This could further turbo-charge her earnings potential as Raducanu can appeal to markets around the world. The fact that she has made such an impression with US audiences, becoming a fan-favourite during the ongoing Grand Slam, widens her appeal even further.

An early example of the 18-year-old's marketability is her being featured in October's Vogue magazine which was organised before the US Open had even started.

 

Emma Raducanu is featured in the October edition of Vogue. - VOGUE

Who is Raducanu's coach?

Her coach is Alex Richardson. Known as "Flex", the 47-year-old Richardson was a promising tennis player who featured in one British Davis Cup tie in 1997. A 6ft 7in giant, he reached the third round of Wimbledon that same year, but perhaps lacked the competitive zeal of his contemporary Tim Henman. The two remain very close, however, and Richardson was the best man at Henman’s wedding.

Since his playing days, Richardson has been beavering away as a coach, mainly at Culford School in Suffolk. He also spent a couple of years working with Raducanu at Bromley Tennis Centre from when she was 11, and then rejoined her camp this summer when she parted company with the experienced Nigel Sears. Part of the thinking was that, as a relaxed presence and a familiar face, he would make her feel as comfortable as possible on her first long trip abroad.

The plan seems to have worked, judging by Raducanu’s comment that “He [Richardson] is a very calming character. So sometimes, if I’m getting intense or too fired up or expect too much from myself, he’s very, very good at just relaxing me and reassuring me.”

How much is Raducanu worth?

Raducanu has earned $303,376 (£219,591) since turning pro – almost all of which she won at Wimbledon this summer. However, she is in line to win either $2.5 million or $1.5 million in US Open prize money depending on the outcome of the final against Leylah Fernandez. These numbers are purely from on court earnings.

The teenage superstar has already surpassed Sir Andy Murray’s earnings at the same age and Raducanu is on course to overhaul his career total of $62,059,682 (£44,859,841) on the court and the tens of millions extra he has gleaned in sponsorships and endorsements off it.

Raducanu's following on Instagram has sky-rocketed during her stunning US Open run, reaching over 625,000 followers which will only add her to her commerical worth moving forward.

What is Raducanu's family background?

Her father, Ian, is Romanian and works in finance. He is said to have been influential in Emma's development as a tennis player, taking an active role in her progression and keeping a close eye on her coaching.

Her mother, Renee, is Chinese and also has a background in finance. Emma is fluent in Mandarin thanks to her mother and uses her language skills to communicate with Chinese players on the tennis circuit.

https://sports.yahoo.com/school-sponsors-coach-emma-radacanu-113108165.html

‘The Cage’ explained: How Emma Raducanu locks up her opponents.

 

Of all her weapon's Emma Raducanu's return of serve might be her most potent - GETTY IMAGES

The way this US Open is going, there may need to be a support group for the players Emma Raducanu has beaten. After Friday night’s semi-final, Maria Sakkari was the latest one to admit that “I wasn’t myself on court.”

The people across the net from Raducanu have played some shocking tennis. In the third round, world No 41 Sara Sorribes Tormo didn’t hit an attacking forehand until the tenth game. In the fourth round, Shelby Rogers (world No 43) sprayed an unforced error on every third point. In the quarter-final, Olympic champion Belinda Bencic’s returns disintegrated to the level of a clubbie.

I’ve heard a few curmudgeons grumble about the standard of women’s tennis, based on this small sample size. But an alternative explanation – which becomes more persuasive with each match – is that Raducanu is breaking her opponents down with her relentlessness and tactical mastery.

According to Dan Travis, a coach and analyst who runs The Art of Winning website, it all starts with what he calls “the cage”. This is the area just around the service notch, deep and central in the court. That’s where Raducanu aims the majority of her returns. And she is remarkably consistent in finding it. Throughout the Sakkari semi-final, she never missed two returns in a row.

“The cage is important because it limits your opponent’s options and pushes them back,” said Travis. “The glory shots in tennis land near to the sidelines. But if you go wide without enough penetration then you open up the angles to your opponent. You make the court much bigger, in effect, and thus harder to defend. When you go deep and central, you’re saying ‘Come on, what have you got to hurt me?’ You’re asking them to gamble, if they want to hit a winner. And the fact is that errors decide matches, not winners.”

Raducanu’s return game is her speciality. As her former coach Mark Petchey told Telegraph Sport last week, “on those occasions when I asked her what she wanted to do, nine out of 10 times she would say ‘return of serve’. So, the fact that she is on her way to becoming the best returner in the world is no fluke.”

Whether serving or using her aggressive return, Raducanu usually arrives at the third stroke of the rally with an advantage. Crucially, she is usually further up the court than her opponent – a vital detail, as it means that she has more access to angles and can take time away from the other player.

Striking the ball early is often more effective than hitting it harder, even though it might not look as spectacular. The benefits redouble, because each step forward is one yard the ball doesn’t have to travel on its way to you, and then another yard it doesn’t have to travel on its way back.

And here comes the second key aspect of the Raducanu game. She generally doesn’t look for the spectacular winner early in the point. Instead she hits to what Travis calls the “inside corners” – large targets which are a couple of metres diagonally inside the actual corners of the court – with enough weight and margin over the net to make her opponent feel that she isn’t going to make easy errors. All the onus is on them to make the play from what is a slightly disadvantaged starting position.

“It’s a suffocating kind of pressure,” said Naomi Cavaday, the former top-200 player and Bromley-based tennis coach who has worked with Raducanu in the past. “She gets on top of you early in the point, then holds you down. It’s like when you’re fighting or wrestling, and you’re being held down, that is exhausting. And you see how her opponents have reacted. Sakkari was fuming. Bencic was throwing her racket. They’re frustrated because it’s so difficult to make significant inroads.”

If you watch Amazon Prime’s broadcasts, you will see them pick out some of Raducanu’s most glamorous shots. The ones that fly up the sidelines for clean winners. It’s important to hit a few of these, so that your opponent knows that you can pull the trigger when you want to, and doesn’t feel that they can simply trade indefinitely and turn the match into a lung-busting trench warfare. The idea is to create that uncomfortable tension in their mind – should I go for it or should I be patient? To make them second-guess themselves, and so eventually implode.

The same thing happens to most of Novak Djokovic’s opponents in the end, and he uses a very similar strategy of banging those “cage” returns up the middle. It’s why Raducanu is able to keep putting these long sequences of games together: 11 in a row against Sorribes Tormo and Rogers, five in a row against Bencic and Sakkari. Because she is usually on top after the return, no matter who is serving.

Tennis statistics are often vague and woolly, as is the case on the subjective category of unforced errors (UE). But with that proviso, it’s worth noting that Raducanu’s UE tallies have been extraordinarily consistent across each the six rounds, never exceeding 18 in a single match nor dropping under 11.

It’s important not to be too passive, and thus let your opponent dictate. So Raducanu usually waits until she has been presented with a short "meatball" in the middle of the court. Or, alternatively, until her opponent has gone wide – opening up the angles as Travis mentioned above – but with insufficient pace or accuracy to make her really scramble. At that moment, she steps in and drives a winner up the line – a shot that she can play with equal proficiency on both wings. Tennis is a sport of risk and reward, and like the A-Level mathematician she is, Raducanu has the equation balanced perfectly.

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Global citizens, teen US Open finalists have fans all over.

Emma Raducanu first met Leylah Fernandez at a tournament for players 12 and under, around the time one of Fernandez’s teachers urged her to give up the tennis dream.

They shared a love of the game and a connection to Canada, where Fernandez lived and Raducanu was born, helping build a quick relationship. But the teenagers have much more in common — maybe more than they realized.

They will attract an audience to their U.S. Open women's final Saturday that extends far beyond the fans who will be at Arthur Ashe Stadium.

“I just think that the matchup and what we’re seeing — those two ladies are touching a lot of young girls,” said Jorge Fernandez, Leylah’s father and coach.

People will be watching in Asia: The 18-year-old Raducanu's mother is from China and the 19-year-old Fernandez's is Filipino Canadian.

And in Latin America: Jorge Fernandez is from Ecuador.

And in Europe: Raducanu's father is from Romania.

And, of course, in Canada: Fernandez was born in Montreal (although she has been based in Florida for several years); Raducanu was born in Toronto and still holds a passport from that country (her family moved to England when she was 2).

Beyond being terrific tennis players, these teenagers are citizens of the world.

“This can only be good for the tennis game and for the WTA altogether,” said Jorge Fernandez, who answered questions during a Zoom interview Friday in English, Spanish and French.

Leylah Fernandez was relatively unknown in the Philippines and Ecuador before beating defending champion Naomi Osaka in the third round. She has since drawn plenty of attention from local media in both countries, with mentions of her family's roots.

Char Abalos was among the fans who woke up early Friday in Manila to watch Fernandez beat No. 2 Aryna Sabalenka in a semifinal match that took place Thursday night in New York.

“She looks very calm but at the same time cheerful in the court,” Abalos said, noting that many tennis players are often quick to frown. “Leylah is so calm, just making sure that the crowd is enjoying.”

The player who emerges Saturday as a new face of tennis will be a lot like last year's U.S. Open champion. Osaka was born in Japan to a Japanese mother and Haitian father, with the family moving to New York when she was young.

Tennis also sent this year's finalists on the move — in Fernandez's case, her mother moved to California to help support the family while Leylah and her father remained in Canada to train.

Now, they live together in Florida, where Jorge Fernandez has remained during these two weeks while coaching from afar via phone conversations. He's noticed the messages of encouragement that in recent days included tweets from Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Leylah Fernandez didn't always have such support.

She remembers being in the fifth or sixth grade and being encouraged to quit spending so much time on her backhand and pay more attention to the blackboard.

“I remember one teacher, which was actually very funny — at the time wasn’t, but now I’m laughing,” Fernandez said. “She told me to stop playing tennis, ‘You will never make it and just focus on school.’”

Instead, her family dug in more, with Jorge Fernandez remembering his daughter winning a tournament at 12 that featured players who were 16. Perhaps that got her ready for a U.S. Open draw that featured three players ranked in the top five.

After beating all of them in three sets, including Osaka, her opponent is Raducanu, who wasn't even in the top 350 a few months ago. Nor was she even guaranteed to be in the U.S. Open a few weeks ago, having to play her way into the main draw through the qualifying rounds.

She is the first qualifier to reach a Grand Slam final. Raducanu beat Fernandez in the junior Wimbledon tournament in 2018, but their skills — and fans — have only grown.

“Obviously since then, we’ve both come very far in our games and as people,” Raducanu said. “I’m sure it’s going to be extremely different to when we last encountered each other.”

This meeting is the first Grand Slam final between teenagers since the 1999 U.S. Open, when Serena Williams, 17, beat Martina Hingis, 18.

Fernandez will be trying to give Canada its second 19-year-old champion in three years, after Bianca Andreescu beat Williams to win the 2019 title.

If that match felt like a changing of the guard in women's tennis, well, Saturday's final seems like another sped-up version of that, pitting players born 2 months apart in 2002.

Raducanu still remembers watching the 2011 French Open final, when Li Na became the first player from Asia to win a Grand Slam singles title in a match viewed by more than 115 million people in China.

“I think for me, having a Chinese mom, she definitely instilled from a young age hard work, discipline,” Raducanu said. “I think for me, when I was younger, I would take a lot of inspiration from Li Na, even now, just the way she was such a fierce competitor.”

Jorge Fernandez sees his wife's influence providing the same fighting spirit on his daughter's game.

“She’s got Filipino blood in her,” he said. “It’s beautiful.”

Their pursuit of tennis success from opposite sides of the Atlantic made it difficult for Fernandez and Raducanu to keep up the relationship that started when they bonded over their Canadian roots during a tournament in Florida.

Raducanu said they say hello whenever they see each other. On Saturday, they can do it standing across the net from each other in the biggest stadium in the sport.

“I’m sure there will be a good atmosphere for both of us,” Raducanu said.

The world will be watching.

https://sports.yahoo.com/global-citizens-teen-us-open-205702123.html

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Men's Doubles Final Trophy Presentation | 2021 US Open.

 

 

Leylah Fernandez vs Aryna Sabalenka Highlights | 2021 US Open Semifinal.

 

 

Emma Raducanu vs Maria Sakkari Highlights | 2021 US Open Semifinal.

 

 

Serena Williams vs Martina Hingis Full Match | 1999 US Open Final.

 

 

Daniil Medvedev vs Felix Auger-Aliassime Highlights | 2021 US Open Semifinal.

 

 

Match Point | Joe Salisbury & Rajeev Ram Win The Men's Doubles Title | 2021 US Open.

 

 

Match Point | Qualifer Emma Raducanu Reaches Final! | 2021 US Open.

 

 

Match Point | Leylah Fernandez is a Finalist! | 2021 US Open.