Emma Raducanu: US Open Champion

I don't watch much tennis. But from what I've seen of Raducanu so far, she looked so much more agile and flexible than I've ever witnessed before. The way she jumps around, swivels her centre of mass, contorts her body and slides around the court is incredible. Even that incident when she scraped her fecking knee on the ground was amazing. It was like watching a gymnast on the court.

The whole performance was very impressive from a general athletic perspective. I hope she doesn't lose too much of that as she gets older.
 
jojojo said:
I'm intrigued by this, I wonder if the term has changed meaning or varies between countries. Wimbledon was always "a grand slam" to me and I remember learning the names of the other grand slam tournaments (predates live international TV coverage, so I knew their names before I watched them!)

But that meant we could talk about players winning a Grand Slam whereas THE Grand Slam was winning the lot. It sounds like some posters now call the grand slam events slams now.

And on that rambling note...
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I think the difference is between "The Grand Slam" and commenters using the term Grand Slam tournament, which Wimbledon is one of. I agree with you, I'd always talked about Wimbledon as a Grand Slam.

Wikipedia says the same as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Slam_(tennis)
 
Ramshock said:
Not to take away from her brilliant win, she looks like a future great, but can someone explain the beef with Piers Morgan and her or is it just because he is a complete bellend?
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croadyman said:
If memory serves me right didn't he go in on her the morning after for quitting that match at Wimbledon
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He got his dig in but he at least congratulated her



 
Moby said:
Happy for Romania, China and Canada.
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croadyman said:
The trolls can come at me with she's born in Canada because quite frankly couldn't care less, she is representing GB and that's good enough for me even though clearly for some it obviously isn't
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It never will be for some closed mind Brits who want their stars whiter than white blue eyed darlings from the Home Counties.

We’ve had this for years from John Barnes to Linford Christie to others. Raducanu has been here since she was two. Whether she has succeeded because of the tennis system or like Henman, in spite of it, is irrelevant. She like many other kids, have every right to call themselves British. The online trolls who will make themselves known will just have to learn to deal with it
 
Moby said:
Happy for Nike as well.
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Yep, the cnuts will be out to market every ounce out of her until it doesn’t suit them. fecking parasites the lot of them.

Hope she can stay healthy and stay above it
 
SilentWitness said:
Amazing achievement.
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It is! Wonder what’s happened to all the other girls though. Barty was burned out.Osaka too. Where was Halep etc? Doesn’t augur too well for the women’s game if these players are getting burned out in their or before their prime
 
Moby said:
Happy for Romania, China and Canada.
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She's been in the UK since age two, less of a ringer than some other British tennis player, cricketers etc. 57% of births in London to foreign born mothers. She's from Bromley.

It's a great achievement. What you have to say is that having two un seeded players in the final shows women's tennis standard is very flat now. No really outstanding players. All the grand slams look wide open.

In prior era's such a run could not have happened because there was a huge difference in standard between qualifying and the seeds. She actually lost 5 games in one set in qualifying but not more than 4 in the actual tournament!
 
Inigo Montoya said:
Yep, the cnuts will be out to market every ounce out of her until it doesn’t suit them. fecking parasites the lot of them.

Hope she can stay healthy and stay above it
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You realise she chooses to wear their products and gets paid for it right?
 
Classical Mechanic said:
She's going to be a megastar. She has everything to be one of the top sports stars in the world. The big challenge for her will be keeping her feet on the ground with all the hype and money that will come her way.
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I think she's already very well off. International parents working in finance, posh accent, tennis is kind of a posh people's game as well.

But takes nothing away from her, it's a brilliant story and she seems very intelligent and mature when she speaks
 
It's 2021 people can be both British and Canadian, Romanian or anything else without having to take away from her Britishness.

What an achievement.
 
Ibi Dreams said:
I think she's already very well off. International parents working in finance, posh accent, tennis is kind of a posh people's game as well.

But takes nothing away from her, it's a brilliant story and she seems very intelligent and mature when she speaks
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Shes privately educated and from an upper middle class background but on the stage last night someone from JP Morgan gave her a cheque for $2.5m (very American, it would never happen at Wimbledon). It’s a different stratosphere.

Inigo Montoya said:
As she says she loves Romanian food, I think she’s as British as Mamalide and Sarmale
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I was only counter trolling the troll. If you look at her Twitter she claims all aspects of her heritage. Being privately educated in England does make you English in a particular kind of way though.
 
Intelligent well spoken young lady. On top of that a fantastic Tennis player. Wish her all the best in her future career which I'm sure is going to be a very good one.
 
arnie_ni said:
He got his dig in but he at least congratulated her

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Because he flip flops his views to balance support/abuse… he’s just a clickbait account now as well as always being a tw@t

As one of the replies said….


Inigo Montoya said:
It never will be for some closed mind Brits who want their stars whiter than white blue eyed darlings from the Home Counties.

We’ve had this for years from John Barnes to Linford Christie to others. Raducanu has been here since she was two. Whether she has succeeded because of the tennis system or like Henman, in spite of it, is irrelevant. She like many other kids, have every right to call themselves British. The online trolls who will make themselves known will just have to learn to deal with it
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Maybe it’s because I’m in Britain but seems to be a British thing only (arguing over who ‘qualifies’ as British/foreign). I doubt Americans argue that McEnroe isn’t American?
 
BeforeKeanetherewasRobson said:
Because he flip flops his views to balance support/abuse… he’s just a clickbait account now as well as always being a tw@t

As one of the replies said….



Maybe it’s because I’m in Britain but seems to be a British thing only (arguing over who ‘qualifies’ as British/foreign). I doubt Americans argue that McEnroe isn’t American?
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The Romanian or Chinese would gladly claim her as their own. Reading Romanian (my mother is Romanian) newspapers they absolutely adore and love her.
 
Moby said:
I did my university education in England. Guess I'm part English now. :lol:
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Not really. I assume that your character was formed in the environment that you grew up in like everyone else. If you lived here for 5 years and took out British citizenship then of course you could then claim that identity.
 
I don't think she'll have any problem getting adoring fans, the problem will be stopping them overwhelming her.

At any rate yesterday's match was:
Romanian Chinese Canadian Brit v Equadorian Filipino Canadian
So there's plenty of national pride to go round.
 
I was born in Canada and moved to UK at age four - I don't feel any part of my identity is Canadian really

and she moved when she was two right? I doubt she does either
 
Classical Mechanic said:
Not really. I assume that your character was formed in the environment that you grew up in like everyone else. If you lived here for 5 years and took out British citizenship then of course you could then claim that identity.
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Yeah the selectiveness is rather obvious. :)

Jokes aside the reason people wanna bring this up is because loads of English people regularly classify people actually born in England, lived here there entire lives as 'foreigner scum' and actively campaign for driving them out who are now happily thumping their chests for this 'British success' which is someone who wasn't even born here and has zero British ancestry.

So excuse us for finding the blatant hypocrisy and sucking it up by this lot rather hilarious to say the least.
 
Classical Mechanic said:
Shes privately educated and from an upper middle class background but on the stage last night someone from JP Morgan gave her a cheque for $2.5m (very American, it would never happen at Wimbledon). It’s a different stratosphere.



I was only counter trolling the troll. If you look at her Twitter she claims all aspects of her heritage. Being privately educated in England does make you English in a particular kind of way though.
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I don't think it's a private school. It looks like an old fashioned selective grammar school - what we used to call a direct grant school.

An anomaly certainly and one that's probably reflected in very high house prices for its catchment area, but a local authority funded school. I could be wrong though.
 
Moby said:
Yeah the selectiveness is rather obvious. :)

Jokes aside the reason people wanna bring this up is because loads of English people regularly classify people actually born in England, lived here there entire lives as 'foreigner scum' and actively campaign for driving them out who are now happily thumping their chests for this 'British success' which is someone who wasn't even born here and has zero British ancestry.

So excuse us for finding the blatant hypocrisy and sucking it up by this lot rather hilarious to say the least.
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It’s a minority of people that think that England or the UK should be a white ethnostate and I don’t think any of them are cheering her on. I don’t think any post on this site either.

I‘m not sure what you mean by my ‘selectiveness‘. My thoughts on this are:

1. It’s doesn’t matter if she’s born here or not for her to qualify as English or British.
2. She doesn’t need any genetic British ancestry to identify as English or British or indeed be either of those. To me she’s more British than Chris Froome who has never lived here but has genetic ancestry in Britain.
3. Being brought up all her conscious life in England qualifies her British/English in my opinion.
4. That said it’s entirely up to her how she defines her nationality.
5. Doing a year at an English university is not in comparable to her life growing up here if you’re talking about a cultural background. If you do live here on a more permanent basis then of course you can be English or British or however you want to identify.
 
jojojo said:
I don't think it's a private school. It looks like an old fashioned selective grammar school - what we used to call a direct grant school.

An anomaly certainly and one that's probably reflected in very high house prices for its catchment area, but a local authority funded school. I could be wrong though.
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Looks like you’re right, at least from wiki.
 
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