Tennis!

[Bobfoc]

Joe Salisbury also won in the mixed doubles earlier today, giving him a second title of the tournament. It's been a successful couple of days for British tennis.

[Chris2K]

Playing every round including qualifiers without dropping a set is just incredible.

And now she's singing Sweet Caroline.

[Lineker]

Well done Emma! 

[The Lusophone]

6-1, 6-2 
6-3, 7-5
6-1, 6-4
6-2, 6-3
6-2, 6-4
6-0, 6-1
6-2, 6-1
6-3, 6-4
6-1, 6-4
6-4, 6-3
A qualifier, in only her second slam, has won the US Open, without dropping a set. Utter dominance.

[Adam]

It is remarkable, beyond anything I could put into words most likely.

What Emma Raducanu has done this month is one of the biggest achievements in the history of professional tennis, if not sport as a whole. To do it at 18 years of age, as a qualifier, in only her fourth senior tournament, is mind-blowing. 

[Lineker]

 

[The Kraig]

Just amazing stuff. So chuffed for her after all the shit she got at Wimbledon. Even just beating Belinda Bencic (Olympic gold medalist) is a big deal. To go on and win the whole thing is Maria Sharapova winning Wimbledon levels of amazing. But even more unexpected and impressive.

Hope the media don't start interfering with her and let her enjoy this success at least.

[Baddar]

Having your flight home booked a few weeks prior shows where the expectations were set. I think every flight home from now on will have to wait until the day after a tournament ends.

To win 10 matches without losing a set and win a Grand Slam is ridiculous. She looked so composed too. 

[Chris2K]

Obviously Emma is great, but there's still thing she needs to work on:

1) Finishing overhead shots at the net, she missed or didn't finish far too many easy points.

2) Where to kiss her trophies after winning them.

Kissing the handle is unacceptable.

[Adam]

Medvedev has blown Djokovic away to end his "historic" Calendar Slam everyone banged on about. Good.

The crowd were a disgrace as well. Classless, maybe the worst I've ever seen in tennis.

[Bobfoc]

Medvedev seems like a knob, but this is a more interesting result than another Djokovic victory would have been. Complete dominance is boring.

The US Open has had six different male winners in the last ten years, which is unusual when compared with the other Slams. The Australian Open and French Open have had three different champions, while Wimbledon has had four.

[gunnar hendershow]

The last two US Open men's champions make up half of the supposed next generation "Big Four". The other two have recently reached finals of Grand Slams. So maybe at last the changing of the guard is underway.

[Chris2K]

The girl that beat her has one hell of a claim to fame.

[Bobfoc]

Cameron Norrie has just reached the Indian Wells final. That's probably the best achievement by a male British player since Kyle Edmund got to the Australian Open semi-finals in 2018.

[Bobfoc]

And he's won it. The draw opened up nicely for him and he took advantage. Fine achievement.

[The Kraig]

Really surprised and impressed, only seen the highlights but he looked strong. Wonder where he will build a good run next. I also didn't realise he had such a complex upbringing - born South African to Scottish/Welsh parents, grew up in New Zealand, sporting school career in the US...he's an international man of tennis.

[Adam]

Jo Konta calls it a day.

[Bobfoc]

That's a shame. She's only 30. Still, reaching three Grand Slam semi-finals is nothing to scoff at, and she proved in her prime that she could compete with the best players in the world. I hoped she would be able to rediscover that kind of form, but she should still go down as one of Britain's top Open Era players.

[Lineker]

 

[Colly]

I know the jokes been made already but I've never seen better nominative determinism.