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Today’s match is the first US Open final between teenagers since 1999, when Serena Williams saw off Martina Hingis for the first of the American’s 23 career major titles. Our Tumaini Carayol has written about their unlikely convergence today in the world’s biggest tennis stadium and what it means for the sport moving forward.
Over the past 20 years, as memories of Martina Hingis, Venus Williams and Serena Williams battling for glory in grand slam finals as teens faded deep into the memory of professional tennis, it soon became clear that the era of teenage supernovas had abated.
While there have been numerous anomalies since, including the recent triumphs of Bianca Andreescu and Iga Swiatek, with the rise of technology and augmenting physicality within the sport teenagers have been brushed aside.
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Hello and welcome to Arthur Ashe Stadium for today’s US Open women’s final between Emma Raducanu and Leylah Annie Fernandez. It’s a showdown that would have been unthinkable at the start of the fortnight, but we’re less an hour away from a best-of-three-sets match between a pair teenagers ranked 73rd and 150th with $2,500,000 (£1,807,000) in prize money and a grand slam championship on the line.
The players should be on court in a little over an hour but we’ll be with you throughout the final run-up on a cool 76F (24C) afternoon at the Billie Jean King USTA National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows.
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