2021 US Open

Itssoeasy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117878945#Comment_117878945

Haha. It’s the Craig Ferguson joke about Paul McCartney and Angela Lansbury.

Bad timing on getting a cold sore this week for the cup photos

klr87

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117878972#Comment_117878972

I'm still p****d with Michael Chang for doing that during his 1989 French Open winner's speech. I have a long memory ...

Itssoeasy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117878974#Comment_117878974

No they weren’t born.

Itssoeasy

This is one of the reasons I have prime video is because of the fact they have live tennis.

AllForIt

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117878987#Comment_117878987

The main reason I use pirate TV apps is because of the fact of live tennis :D

edit: oh ****, better delete this, if I knew how :D

klr87

Raducanu now 23 in the live rankings, 14 in the live (calendar year) race to the WTA finals. It's unlikely but not impossible for her to make the top 8 for the WTA finals. It's now unthinkable she won't get a wild card for Indian Wells in a month's time, which has by far the most points on offer in the rest of the regular season.

Oh yeah, and Lizzie has sent her a telegram. Or someone pretending to be Lizzie, more likely.

BorneTobyWilde

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117878991#Comment_117878991

Eh I just watched all the other games on a stream, quick google, and boom. I dunno why people pay for anything

Tribeshift

Great to have 2 new stars on the scene - so refreshing.

Augme

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117878973#Comment_117878973

Haha, I wasn't quite as serious as it comes across in text. She does seem like a great young woman so I am happy for her.

I do hope she can repeat that performance at Wimbledon too, especially after how last year went. The pressure on her now will be huge. Fingers crossed she can cope with it.

Itssoeasy

Seems the 9/11 comments by leylah Fernandez is going over well with Americans.

gmisk

Funny

https://twitter.com/MrJonNewton/status/1436817623686262785?s=19

JP Liz V1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117878993#Comment_117878993

She was 150th

Itssoeasy

The BBC sports personality of the year 2021 is locked up surely.

hamburgham

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117878931#Comment_117878931

John McEnroe wasn’t too complementary about her either, that seems to have been forgotten. Wonder what he’ll say now,

MisterAnarchy

That was an enjoyable game of tennis.

I hadnt seen either player play before.

Fernandez has the more rounded game, very clever player for her age, a wide range of shotmaking.

I see she took out alot of big names enroute to the final whereas Radecanu had a much easier route.

Perhaps this could be the beginning of a longstanding rivalry.

hamburgham

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117878993#Comment_117878993

Yes, apparently Liz has less than zero interest in tennis, never goes to Wimbledon.

klr87

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117879037#Comment_117879037

All the Olympians who thought they'd be fighting it out have just been leapfrogged. As sporting fairytales go, this is one of the very biggest.

Itssoeasy

https://twitter.com/zackohlin/status/1436829815852703749?s=21

Because it seems people are saying that the stoppage for blood was a tactic, here’s the rule which seems fairly clear and what happened during the final.

josip

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117878994#Comment_117878994

Probably so that there is 'anything' to watch.

Without TV revenues, the tournaments would have a lot less prize money.

Rjd2

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117879082#Comment_117879082

1/20 or so with the bookies.

Unless she joins ISIS she wins, she can lose the rest of her matches this year and still wont matter.

To be fair its a wild story , qualifier wins 10 games in a row and does not drop a set.

Itssoeasy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117879042#Comment_117879042

Not surprisingly Emma Raducanu is trending on Twitter and by Jesus is piers Morgan doing some damage control on his previous utterances after Wimbledon.

MisterAnarchy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117879092#Comment_117879092

Twitter seems to bring out the worst in some people and also give a voice to cretins.

Look at this nonsense

https://twitter.com/janemerrick23/status/1436815912343121923

Hermy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117879072#Comment_117879072

She was there in 2010.

Girly Gal

Congrats and well done to Emma Raducanu, delighted she won. Amazing that she went all the way from qualifying without dropping a set. Both players played well and didn't let themselves down, Fernandez a little less consistent throughout the match, had one or two dips which cost her. Felt that Raducanu had to get it done in the second set as she was beginning to tire, had it gone to a third Fernandez looked the fresher of the two and would also have had the momentum too.

Not sure why Fernandez got so upset about the MTO (hopefully not a sign of another drama queen in the making), it was bad timing for both players and it wasn't as if it was a tactical MTO as we often see from other players. Think if she had just stayed calm she could have broken Raducanu once play resumed, tbf Raducanu showed great composure under pressure especially having to deal with the MTO knowing she was so close to winning, yet also one point away from the match turning around.

It'll be interesting to see how both their careers go from here, will this be the career high point for both or the beginning of great careers for both. We've seen so many women in the last few years come win a slam from nowhere and kinda disappear after. Both are probably already financially set for life.

Raducanu in particular comes across as really likeable, seems very level headed and humble also good at the media side of things, she's basically an advertisers deam, can only imagine the commercial sponsorship deals she's in line for.

The odds on both players making the final and Raducanu not to drop a set all the way must have been astronomical a month ago.

Dempo1

It's been a very very long time since I watched Tennis live on TV, there was a time I'd actually take holidays around Wimbledon time (long, long time ago)

Amazon prime did a spectacular job, I was able to see the final live last evening. God it was refreshing not having to listen to and watch the rather tired, stale & typically patronising BBC coverage.

Both Players were magnificent, it was a breath of fresh air, watching to players actually enjoy playing Tennis.

Raducanu was just amazing, the composure just extraordinary. Fernandez equally impressive they both made it look so easy (I know it's not)

Finally have to say Fernandez speech afterwards was brilliant also.

Amazing stuff 😏

walshb

Fernandez, what a horrible sport!

Decent match now hopefully they can build on it.

I'd take Raducanu replacing Osaka in the WTA spotlight as a positive outcome.

Fernandez let herself down a bit when Raducanu got plastered.

HeidiHeidi

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117879467#Comment_117879467

I wouldn't call her a horrible sport, exactly - she's young, that was her first final, and I'd say emotion/stress/tension got the better of her.

But someone needs to get it into her head fairly rapid that getting wound up about situations entirely outside her control will only damage her rhythm and concentration - she did herself far more harm than good giving out yards to the referee.

I so wish I could lip-read though!!

That was the first match I'd watched in the tournament, as it was FTA (thank you C4!!) - and what a match. And what a package Raducanu seems to be..... after the meltdown at Wimbledon, to come back and win the whole bloody US Open from qualifying and in such style - well, that's just amazing.

(as an aside, they kept going on about being the first qualifier ever to get to a final and then win a Grand Slam...... but what about Boris Becker? was it because he was a wild-card? or unseeded? what was the difference there? Too long ago for me to remember properly!)

Hopefully she can keep her head now and just keep progressing. Exiting prospect for sure!

klr87

Looks like Channel 4 made the right call:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1436982616574636032

Congratulations to

@EmmaRaducanu

! A peak audience of 9.2m watched her historic #USOpenFinal victory on

@Channel4

- a 39.9% share of total audience & 48% of 16-34 year olds

... and that's not counting those who watched it on Amazon Prime.