Cheering On Emma Raducanu

Nobody seems to have heard of Tennis player Emma Raducanu until a few weeks ago and suddenly everyone is falling over themselves to try and find where they can watch her play fellow teenager Leylah Fernandez in the US Open Final tonight.
Previously the final was on Amazon Prime and you needed a subscription but hats off to Channel 4 who have paid a massive amount to Amazon to show it live on Free-to-Air TV so we can watch along at 21:00 BST tonight.
Hers is an incredible story, ranked too low to make the main draw, the 18-year-old had to come through three rounds of qualifying and has become the first qualifier to reach a major final and doing all that without dropping a set.
Her opponent, Leylah Fernandez, is only a year older at 19 and did face Radacanu in the second round of junior Wimbledon in 2018 with Raducanu winning that match 6-2 6-4 but we are being warned not to use that as a gauge as both have changed since and Fernandez has had a much tougher route to the final with four of her six matches going to three sets and featuring five tie-breaks.
You would have got great odds at the start of the tournament that the women's final would feature the world numbers 150 and 73 but although Raducana was born in Canada to Chinese and Romanian parents, she came to the UK aged two and is a product of the British Tennis Association so this isn't a Greg Rusedski or Lennox Lewis situation where they waved the Union Flag but were never really accepted as British, she is truly one of our own.
What is certain is that once she returns to Bromley, she is guaranteed a heroes welcome so well done Emma, well done Channel 4 and well done the Advertising Executives who have their new very photogenic and very smiley new star to flog us stuff we never knew we needed.