teen queen s, with emma raducanu up against canada s leylah fernandez, only a few months her seniors. her fans will be hoping if they shout loudly enough, shejust fans will be hoping if they shout loudly enough, she just might hear them. cheering it s clearfrom cheering it s clear from speaking to youngsters at the school today that what emma raducanu has achieved in america has really got them dreaming of what might be possible for them. they seem to find it very cool that she shared the same classrooms as them and they are already pleading with their parents to let them stay at way past their bedtime tomorrow to watch her in the final. let s take a look at how emma raducanu got to this point. she was born in toronto in canada on on 13th may 2002 but moved to the uk when she was two.
she first picked up a tennis racket at the age of five, and joined the bromley tennis academy in london. in may 2018 she won her first international tennis federation title in israel with a prize fund of 15 thousand dollars. in june of that year she played at wimbledon for the first time, making it through to the quarter finals of thejunior tournament, but she didn t make her debut on the wta main draw until may this year when she competed at the nottingham open. emma really burst onto the world stage when she made it through to the last sixteen in the main draw at wimbledon as a wild card entry this year, before having to retire with breathing difficulties on court. and as we now know she will compete in the us open final tomorrow. virginia wade, who was the last british woman to make the finals of the us open in 1968, said emma raducanu was the real thing . she will have a day to recover tomorrow and then i think it s such an opportunity to put everything into it.
this is bbc news. the headlines: the fairytale of new york continues 18 year old emma raducanu reaches the final of the us open, the first british woman to do so for more than four decades. honestly, ijust can t believe it. a shocked, crazy. all of the above. the head of m15 tells the bbc that the return of the taliban in afghanistan is likely to have emboldened lone wolf terrorists in the uk. we do face a consistent global struggle to defeat extremism and to guard against terrorism. this is a real problem. the scientist behind the oxford astra zeneca vaccine says
giving boosterjabs to everyone is unnecessary and calls for doses to be sent to countries in need. eight years after her death, the family of suzanne van hagen receive a public apology from west midlands police for theirfailings in her case. and people across the united states and the world prepare to remember the 20th anniversary of the september 11th attacks. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. teenage tennis sensation emma raducanu has become the first british woman to reach a major singles tennis final for 44 years. 18 year old emma beat the 17th seed maria sakkari
under the lights atjust 18 would surely have seen far fetched. no qualifiers in the men s or women s game had ever reached at this age, but she had the confidence to do it. her opponent had the experience and said the electric atmosphere would only enhance her sporting spirit, but that was diminished as i m raducanu rose to the occasion, holding her nerves and to serve. her opponent tried everything, even a change of skirt. after half an hour, she was finally on the board but it was too little, too late, and emma raducanu since healed the set. the second set was considerably closer but her focus and force did not falter. still, the crowd got louder. there s going to be no doubt about that one. ~ ., ., . .,, that one. wouldn t match point was all she needed, that one. wouldn t match point was all she needed, and that one. wouldn t match point was all she needed, and she that one. wouldn t match point was all she needed, and she wasn t - that one. wouldn t match point was all she