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María Camila Osorio: the 17-year-old Colombian who made history at the US Open

2019-09-09T17:43:27.620Z


María Camila Osorio Serrano is 17 years old and has already made history in one of the biggest world tennis championships.


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(CNN Spanish) - "It's unreal, it's been a great week for me, I'm very happy and grateful for this, I can't believe I won." While speaking to the press, María Camila Osorio Serrano could not stop smiling. The 17-year-old Colombian had just won the US Open Junior.

Osorio Serrano beat the American Alexandra Yepifanova 6-1, 6-0 with a performance that the tournament itself described as "sweeping." "Osorio Serrano saved the best for last in the US Open 2019," they said.

A first Grand Slam title!

🇨🇴 @CamiOsorioTenis claims the Junior Girls' Singles title 6-1, 6-0 over Alexandra Yepifanova.https: //t.co/5ydKrsAOU5 | #USOpen pic.twitter.com/ai16cd6EiO

- US Open Tennis (@usopen) September 8, 2019

With her victory, she became the first Colombian to win a US Open Junior title.

The victory in the final this Sunday was animated by Colombian spectators who were on court 17 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York.

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"There were a lot of people from Colombia cheering me up," Osorio Serrano told reporters about the Colombians who supported her, according to the official US Open website. "I am really grateful for this and I want to thank you because you have been supporting the whole week."

Osorio Serrano, 17, was born in Cúcuta, capital of the department of Norte de Santander, in the north-east of the country, and is trained by Alejandro Falla, a Colombian extenist who became number 48 in the world ranking.

This was the last junior championship for Osorio Serrano, who turns 18 on December 22. He is currently in 227th place in the women's individual ranking, and in 687th place in the doubles ranking.

Osorio Serrano defeated the Russian Oksana Selekhmeteva 6-3, 6-7, 6-4 on Saturday for a place in the final that was played a day later.

The young Colombian woman was not the only one in her country who made history in the tournament: her countrymen Juan Sebastián Cabal and Robert Farah, the Colombian gold duo, won the US Open final, their second Grand Slam of the year, as they had already won in doubles at Wimbledon, the first Grand Slam for Colombia.

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The US Open Junior champion received congratulations from Billie Jean King, the famous tennis player and activist who won 39 Grand Slam championships in singles, doubles and mixed doubles; Founder and first president of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), and in whose honor the center where the final was played was named.

Cheers to many more titles for first-time Grand Slam winner, @CamiOsorioTenis! #USOpen https://t.co/Ip2kCx8K5U

- Billie Jean King (@BillieJeanKing) September 8, 2019

Patrick Galbraith, president of the United States Tennis Association, also congratulated the Colombian on Twitter.

What a match! The drama and competition we saw couldn't have been better. Congratulations to @RafaelNadal! https://t.co/AQQug0Pp1Z

- Patrick Galbraith (@PGalbraithUSTA) September 9, 2019

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Source: cnnespanol

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