Come out of nowhere, sign a historic enterprise. And now? Now comes the fun. That is the difficult. After the big jump, there is always a landing. Emma Raducanu, 18, the new queen of world tennis, will have to keep this in mind after the incredible success at the US Open a week ago. Born in Canada of Romanian and Chinese parents and moved to Great Britain as a child (she was only two years old), just graduated from the high school exam with an excellent grade in Mathematics and Economics, now the 18-year-old Brit will have to manage fame.
And he must be hungry. A lot. To win again and to agree with those who believe she can “dominate the world of women’s tennis for the next ten years”, as her coach Mark Petchey said. Nobody – among specialists and simple aficionados – has doubts about the fact that we are facing a phenomenon. His triumph was also greeted by the queen Elizabeth II on Twitter: “I have no doubt that your outstanding performance will inspire the next generation of tennis players.”
The truth is that every now and then we think we see a star shine and instead it was just a reflection, a confusing mistake. In the firmament of sport of every era, examples are not lacking. Glory, then oblivion. Emma seems to have those characteristics – the awareness, the talent, the ferocity, an unsuspected wisdom given her age – to last for a long time. But no one can really know how his story will continue. Raducanu won the US Open by beating Leyla Fernandez in the youngest final of the 2000s (both contenders were under twenty). 6-4, 6-3 the final result, with Emma not losing even a set between qualifiers and main draw. It had been Serena Williams in 2004 that succeeded before her. It may be a clue.
Emma came out of the surprise cake, like in some Hollywood movies. She became the first tennis player, both male and female, to win a Grand Slam title starting from a very long way away, that is, from the qualifiers. To date, she is also the youngest player to win a Grand Slam tournament after Russia’s Maria Sharapova, who won the Wimbledon tournament at the age of 17 in 2004.
Emma has a good serve, a precise and effective forehand, she is fast and knows how to read the various phases of the game well. Will all this be enough to make her a star? We will know shortly. Sport has this extraordinary thing: it rewards those who deserve it, in the same way that it avoids the mediocre. Or rather: it can give them a day of glory, but certainly not a first-class career. Those who know how to win the toughest game deserve that one: the one that is played over time, crossing it and bringing out the best in ourselves.
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