For the general public, it is a real unknown who will face Aryna Sabalenka in the final of the Australian Open: Qinwen Zheng.
The 15th player in the world, only 21 years old, has never done better than a quarter-final in a Grand Slam.
And on her way to Melbourne, the Chinese shook up the hierarchy by systematically dismissing players ranked outside the Top 50, including Frenchwoman Océane Dodin during the round of 16.
But don't go saying that his presence in the final is illogical.
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Zheng has been splashing the tennis world with his talent for many years now.
Coming from a generation whose talent did not wait for age to blossom - Emma Raducanu or Leylah Fernandez, also born in 2002, have already experienced the joys of a Major final - the Chinese has always been one of the best players of the world among young people.
Finalist in the Orange Bowl in 2018 against Cori Gauff, crowned at the last US Open, in 2019 she reached the last four in two of the four Grand Slam rounds (Roland-Garros and the US Open) in the junior category.
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