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This US Open, tennis might have come across a star in the making in 18-year old Emma Raducanu. The 18-year old Brit has recently beat 11th seeded, Swiss Belinda Bencic to qualify to the semi finals. Belinda Bencic recently won gold in Tokyo in women’s singles. Emma will be the first tennis player to enter the tournament in the qualifier stage to play in a semi final.
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This is Emma’s second ever Grand Slam and her first one overseas. She has managed to skip Johanna Konta and Heather Watson during the tournament to become the highest ranked British female tennis player. She beat Belinda 6-3 and 6-4, not losing one set to the Swiss gold medallist.
She will now face Greek Maria Sakkari and hope for a good result to make her first ever Grand Slam final. In the other semi final there is another teenager vying for a final 2 spot – 19-year old Leylah Annie Fernandez who hails from Canada.
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