Emma has a world at her feet as Vogue interviews and sponsors line up under her belt — but never the people who were there for her before she became famous. I will not forget. The young star always pays homage to all the people on the past and present team who helped make the end of the weekend fairy tale possible, down to her physiotherapist and nutritionist. Far from accepting the celebrity lifestyle, she is too wise to say about her bounty: Tennis is an expensive sport, traveling and competing once a week and once a week.
For all of her sudden stardom, as she remains in her mind a Bromley teenager who left the highly selective Newstead Wood Grammar School for Orpington girls only this summer. I can see. There are no clues. Perhaps she may go back to the park where everything started and enjoy a knock about with her father, but there is no prize to guess who will win the rematch. How the British Davis Cup tennis ace finds Emmaradukanu hitting the ball with his 4-year-old father.
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Without that encounter, the world might never have heard of tennis's newest global superstar. If Mr Whichello hadn't struck up that conversation, the so-called 'Fairytale of New York' might never have happened. For 14 years after that father and pint-sized daughter rally, Emma is celebrating making sporting history by winning the US Open — the first British woman to win a major title for 44 years since Virginia Wade lifted the Wimbledon trophy in Emma Raducanu, pictured as a youngster, was playing tennis as young as four years old.
And all this without losing her charming sense of wonder at her own meteoric success, even admitting she was so convinced she'd be knocked out in the first round, she'd booked a flight home two weeks before the final.
She can afford more than 16, pairs of the wireless earphones now — possibly even more with talk of the multi-million pound deals expected to be laid at her nimble feet. But it all started in that park with a young girl with raw talent, devoted parents determined to nurture it and the first of a series of tennis coaches and mentors who have never doubted her ability to reach the highest echelons of the sport. Today Richard Whichello — Bjorn Borg's practice partner during the five-times Wimbledon champion's comeback in — is head coach at Beckenham Sports Club, Kent, where he teaches youngsters who all now want to emulate local girl Emma.
Mr Whichello is well known in tennis circles to be instrumental in nurturing her early talent and is said to be incredibly proud of her subsequent success. All he would say after she first took the world by storm at Wimbledon was: 'I have a feeling something seriously special is happening. It's the stuff that dreams are made of and couldn't happen to a more deserving and nicer girl. Others have revealed, however, that during that first conversation with Emma's Romanian father Ian, who moved to the UK with his Chinese wife Renee when Emma was two, the two men forged a lasting friendship after discovering their children would be starting at Bickley Primary School together.
Not only in charge of the tennis curriculum at the school, Mr Whichello encouraged Emma's parents to enrol her for lessons at Sundridge tennis club in Bromley where her talent and potential are said to have been 'in a different league' from the moment she picked up a racquet. Already a star in the making aged six when she won the Under 8s Girls Championships at Bromley Tennis Centre, he is said to have been hugely proud of Emma when she won her first junior ITF title aged Pam Kooner, whose two children aged 15 and 12 have practised with Emma, says: 'Emma is absolutely lovely and really humble.
All the stars have aligned for her, but it's no surprise, really, because she's always been an extraordinary talent. I watched her on court for eight years and none of the other kids were in her league.
She was exceptional, no-one else had the same 'je ne sais quoi'. Coaches have highlighted the star's work ethic as the key to her incredible success on the court. Everyone is so happy for her because there isn't an arrogant bone in Emma's body.
She's got it all, resilience, determination and a really hard work ethic. My understanding is that from a very early age she was getting up at 5am and doing lots of strength and core exercises off her own back.
A lot of talented players drop off as they become teenagers.
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