Emma Radacanu- Superstar

jay_in_cpt

WOW! 🎾
What a brilliant young talented person.
You have made many fans very proud.
Flipping well done Emma 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

thornburyiron

There’ll be a lot of finals in the future featuring these two. Unbelievable quality all the way through.

buffybegood

Amazing performance given her lack of experience.

Fortuneseeker

Brilliant win & another bonus is it reduces the amount of media attention given to CR7.

Bazshuayi

I feel like I want to hear Chris Kamara say 'unbelievable Jeff'. An incredible sporting achievement!

thornburyiron

Fortune that’s wishful thinking.

ValiantIron

Absolutely, amazing, and I can't think in my lifetime of a bigger outsider winning a top level competition from absolutely nowhere. Leicester City were in the middle of 20 clubs, she was at the bottom end of 128 players, more if you count the qualifiers!

Congratulations too to Joe Salisbury, who won TWO Grand Slam titles last week. He probably doesn't know whether to laugh or cry about his wins getting, understandably, completely swamped by this unprecedented achievement.

PrestonHammer

She played 10 matches and didn't drop a set. Totally amazing.

ScotHammer

..,and wasn’t it refreshing that for once the prize money wasn’t even mentioned. A really joyous victory! It’s like a National league club winning the FA cup.

thornburyiron

Except when they handed her a cheque for $2.5M before the trophy.

nychammer66

That’s the one thing that bothered me. The mentioning the money. Isn’t it about the trophy and just winning? No need to put a price tag on it.

MrsGrey

It's not about the trophy and just winning. Not at all. It's a job. Her job.

IronHerb

She'll make more money from endorsements than for actually winning the tournament.
Still waiting to see her Primary School teacher on the news. 😁

Whitehorsehammer

Think her multi cultural background will help her a lot, particularly with marketing and endorsements, British but born in Canada, Chinese mother and Romanian father, speaks Mandarin, but a wonderful talent.

MrsGrey

Until the gloss wears off and the trolls start attacking.

Bazshuayi

Whitehorsehammer said:

Think her multi cultural background will help her a lot, particularly with marketing and endorsements, British but born in Canada, Chinese mother and Romanian father, speaks Mandarin, but a wonderful talent.

Thats impressive how we've managed to make her British I knew there was something fishy about an 18 year old Brit being amazing Was hoping at least one of the parents was British with her Romanian surname.

At least she's going to do better than British Greg Rusedski

OutcastLondoner

I think I read she moved here when she was 2 (or something around that).

ASLEFshrugged

Bazshuayi said:

Thats impressive how we've managed to make her British

She is British. Born in Toronto but moved to the UK when she was two years old, grew up in Orpington and started playing tennis at the Parklangley Club in Beckenham

Orpington...the horror, the horror

I love that her Romanian dad is called Ian and her Chinese mum is Renee

nychammer66

MrsGrey said:

It's not about the trophy and just winning. Not at all. It's a job. Her job.

That is sad.

alderz

nychammer66 said:

MrsGrey said:

It's not about the trophy and just winning. Not at all. It's a job. Her job.

That is sad.

Why is that sad?

Should I be celebrating the PowerPoint I just sent to my boss, and doing it for the love of the charts?

Jorderz_Moyes_will_be_Moyes

No. You definitely shouldn’t.

buffybegood

alderz said:

Why is that sad?

Should I be celebrating the PowerPoint I just sent to my boss, and doing it for the love of the charts?

You mean to say you don't? 😂

OutcastLondoner

buffybegood said:

alderz said:

Why is that sad?

Should I be celebrating the PowerPoint I just sent to my boss, and doing it for the love of the charts?

You mean to say you don't? 😂

He definitely does

Bazshuayi

I think we all know what the key thing is though... What nationality is the PowerPoint? English, Romanian or Canadian??

yoyo

We'd all celebrate a player scoring a goal and that's their job. I see no difference. Just chill and let her enjoy her moment. It was a great achievement

claretandbluesky

When discussing Boxing I can never decide who I think is the greatest British heavyweight Boxer, Anthony Joshua or the Canadian Lennox Lewis!

OutcastLondoner

He’s a Newham boy

Fortuneseeker

c&bsky. Lennox Lewis. Joshua has to beat some bloke called Tyson, and that isn't Mike, surely before he can be considered the greatest British Heavyweight boxer?

Pearces_Left_Foot

claretandbluesky

Fortuneseeker said:

c&bsky. Lennox Lewis. Joshua has to beat some bloke called Tyson, and that isn't Mike, surely before he can be considered the greatest British Heavyweight boxer?

I think that fight has to happen belts or not, Joshua has defended the heavyweight title many times, something that Fury has not, but Fury is unbeaten. I am not sure either is better than Lewis was in his prime, I think he matched AJ for power and could out jab Fury all day. I have never seen a jab carry the power that Lewis's did.

Usyk is a very hard fight for AJ first however, that's no walkover and probably better than he has fought up to now, possibly with the exception of Klitchsko, who was a little past his best unfortunately.

Bazshuayi

Pearces_Left_Foot said:

Is it just me? Seeing John Terry in any picture irritates me...