Emma Raducanu, born in 2002, in the not-so-tennis-famous city of Toronto, Canada, might well have grown up to be anything but a tennis champion. However, fate (and her parents) had other plans. By the age of two, she’d relocated to London and by five, she’d been handed a racket—presumably because smashing tennis balls was more practical than solving math problems, though she turned out to excel at both. With a Romanian father, a Chinese mother and a calm yet tenacious attitude that seems to blend the best of both heritages, Emma grew up balancing school, sports and an alarming knack for doing everything remarkably well.
In 2021, Emma didn’t just burst onto the tennis scene; she practically rewrote it, becoming the first-ever qualifier to win the US Open. And she did it without dropping a single set, which, in tennis terms, is roughly equivalent to writing a best-selling novel without making a single typo. Calm, composed and infinitely inspiring, Emma has shown kids everywhere that age is just a number and hard work can turn even the most improbable dreams into reality—assuming, of course, you’ve got a killer forehand and the nerve to face down the world.
In 2021, Emma didn’t just burst onto the tennis scene; she practically rewrote it, becoming the first-ever qualifier to win the US Open. And she did it without dropping a single set, which, in tennis terms, is roughly equivalent to writing a best-selling novel without making a single typo. Calm, composed and infinitely inspiring, Emma has shown kids everywhere that age is just a number and hard work can turn even the most improbable dreams into reality—assuming, of course, you’ve got a killer forehand and the nerve to face down the world.
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