Raducanu, Fernández and a final with freshness, ease and joy: I hope they never lose those smiles when playing

Javier Frana

09/11/2021 21:07

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Updated 9/11/2021 9:07 PM

These two young women,

Emma Raducanu and Leylah Fernández

, played the US Open women's final

with the same freshness, ease and joy

that they were seen on their way to Arthur Ashe before the game.

Being true to style, form and character in such a challenging and important instance can make even the most experienced player

succumb, but they didn't.

That dose of youth and unconsciousness gave them the possibility to play the finals as they should be played:

with determination, courage, a clear identity

.

In that search, Raducanu made a difference.

With his combination of speed and depth he made the game much more difficult for Fernández, who one could say was at a lower level or did not touch high points on a sustained basis.

That is the responsibility of his opponent

, who presented him with a difficult game, managed the lines and openings, worked the times and spaces very well, with crossed shots, applying counter-legs or playing straight with the intention of not letting Fernández arrive affirmed to define .

It's a teenage dream 🎶 @ leylahfernandez |

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- US Open Tennis (@usopen) September 11, 2021

In some moments the game got stuck and got intense because

the Canadian

, with a good left foot, found opening possibilities and

 showed why she reached this final too

, with a huge hierarchy in her shots.

She did not have a good day with her service and that was used very well by the British, who constantly pressed and

forced her

to play having to come back and put her before the discomfort of having to defend break points or delicate points that make you much more conditioned .

Raducanu showed, beyond a certain tension in the end, logical and normal, a

coldness, clarity and forcefulness

that ended up giving him something historical, something that, I imagine, he will not have been aware of yet.

Raducanu and Fernández, in the embrace at the end.

AFP photo

I keep the photo of both of them at the awards ceremony, with a smile, happy to be there, and I hope

that those smiles never go away in their careers

, even if at some point the pale ones will come.

Above all, those smiles should never be forgotten again and when they are in the wrong, have that photo at hand to assess each step taken.

Look also

Emma Raducanu, the studio obsessive who had a return ticket to the final of qualifying and won the US Open

The meteoric rise of Leylah Fernández, the Canadian who wanted to play soccer and today is the sensation of the US Open