The runner-up in this year’s US Open tennis women’s final was 19-year old Leylah Fernandez who was born in Montreal to Ecuadoran and Filipino parents. And wasn’t it wonderful to have, on the sombre anniversary of 9/11, a celebratory full stadium with barely a mask in sight? The champion is 18-year old Emma Raducanu from Britain, born in Toronto, Canada to Romanian and Chinese parents who moved to England when she was aged two.
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