US Open 2021

Raymond Lin said:
I don’t disagree with what you said about their playing but arguing with the official was a bad move rather than concentrating on yourself at that moment, she took her frustration at the official due to her inexperience. I’m sure she will learn from this.
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I disagree, she had a smile on her face and I think she kind of knew she was still in that game. Emma just had that too much at that key point(s) in that game.
 
robfosters said:
A desperate attempt at political point scoring in a thread where it had no place. You wanna talk immigration, do it in the immigration thread in SC, not a tennis thread where everyone’s cheering along together for our new sporting star. Why come in and stoke the fires of division.
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It isn’t the first post about immigration in this thread and considering she’s a product of exactly that I don’t see the issue with it and instead think it’s a more than a valid point.
 
omnomnom said:
It isn’t the first post about immigration in this thread and considering she’s a product of exactly that I don’t see the issue with it and instead think it’s a more than a valid point.
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She didn’t come here when she was 16, she was 2. Her win is not a product of immigration, it’s a product of British education, British funding and coaching and a hard work ethic.

The way europhiles are hijacking her victory for their own gain is dreadful.
 
robfosters said:
it’s a product of British education, British funding and coaching and a hard work ethic.
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And that was exactly the point I was making, there are some people who think that ALL immigration is wrong, whereas she has shown that by application of that hard work ethic she has proven her value to her country. It was an out and out compliment, the fact that some people got their back up about the comment simply indicates to me that there are way too many knee-jerkers in the forum who lack contextual reading comprehension ability. The Mods here are pretty on the ball with deleting/reprimanding people for unwarranted or outrageous comments and they havent, most likely because they are experienced enough at understanding written conversation that they can see that it was a compliment to Radacanu and intended with sincerity, alternatively nobody who was so triggered by the post appears to have hit the report button or if they have then said report hasnt been validated so at least some on here understand what was being meant by the post rather than immediately getting heated up.

Btw, you should know if you examine my post history, that I am 100% not a europhile. I know you were speaking generally on that rather than specifically me but I just thought I'd be clear that I am firmly in the opposite camp to Europhile ;)
 
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I'm as please for my missus as I am Emma Raducanu, she's a pretty big tennis fan and has followed British tennis for as long as I've known her (I don't mind it but its not my favourite). I do however think its fantastic to have a female British player who can ignite the female game in the same way that Andy Murray did the men's game. She watches everything so we obviously watched the US open and were struck by the total dominance in Raducanu's game, she seems utterly unfazed by the rank / ability of opposition and just asserts her game plan on to them.

The other major thing that she seems to have is the ability to get out of the mental ruts that Murray often found himself in, whereas Murray would often be beaten by himself getting really wound up at things either he or his opponents were doing (and they absolutely knew which buttons to press), Raducanu seems like it has the complete opposite effect in that it appeared to make her step up a gear. There were several times especially early on in the tournament where she was broken in the first few sets and it just seemed to anger her to the point of going on to punish her opposition into submission, several of them were simply blown away.
 
robfosters said:
She didn’t come here when she was 16, she was 2. Her win is not a product of immigration, it’s a product of British education, British funding and coaching and a hard work ethic.

The way europhiles are hijacking her victory for their own gain is dreadful.
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And when she was 2, we was still in the EU with much relaxed rules that allowed her parents to come here in the first place.

I think you missed the original point completely
 
LOAM said:
I'm as please for my missus as I am Emma Raducanu, she's a pretty big tennis fan and has followed British tennis for as long as I've known her (I don't mind it but its not my favourite). I do however think its fantastic to have a female British player who can ignite the female game in the same way that Andy Murray did the men's game. She watches everything so we obviously watched the US open and were struck by the total dominance in Raducanu's game, she seems utterly unfazed by the rank / ability of opposition and just asserts her game plan on to them.

The other major thing that she seems to have is the ability to get out of the mental ruts that Murray often found himself in, whereas Murray would often be beaten by himself getting really wound up at things either he or his opponents were doing (and they absolutely knew which buttons to press), Raducanu seems like it has the complete opposite effect in that it appeared to make her step up a gear. There were several times especially early on in the tournament where she was broken in the first few sets and it just seemed to anger her to the point of going on to punish her opposition into submission, several of them were simply blown away.
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Her mentality I think will serve (no pun intended) her very well in her career I reckon, throughout the whole tournament she has shown terrific calmness and a level head, now to be entirely fair that could well be because as a qualifier there was less pressure on her. Sort of how sometimes a football team will throw a 16-18 year old on in a match and they do incredibly well. Maybe in the next tournament, with much more attention and expectation on her things will be different but I hope not because as you rightly say we've had various Mens players that we can get behind in recent times but not really had any outstanding British women players to do the same with
 
jonneymendoza said:
And when she was 2, we was still in the EU with much relaxed rules that allowed her parents to come here in the first place.

I think you missed the original point completely
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Romania wasn’t even in the EU when she immigrated :rolleyes:

Her parents would have had to apply for a visa to move here, a whole lot different from just any old person being able to plot up whenever they feel like it. Both parents are in finance and they settled in Bromley. Plus they put Emma in private school. They must have had a good financial grounding to do that.

It’s nothing like the illegal or unchecked free movement immigration that people have a problem with.
 
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robfosters said:
Romania wasn’t even in the EU when she immigrated :rolleyes:

Her parents would have had to apply for a visa to move here, a whole lot different from just any old person being able to plot up whenever they feel like it. Both parents are in finance and they settled in Bromley. Plus they put Emma in private school. They must have had a good financial grounding to do that.

It’s nothing like the illegal or unchecked free movement immigration that people have a problem with.
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It was easier to apply rather then now. It’s a load of farce making it difficult for immigrants to work and live here as the government are eager to drop the immigration rate down
 
Anyway, Emma is awesome. Hopefully she can continue it and start dominating womens tennis. There’s a lot of players out there who can make the set up and really dominate the game. There’s a window opening with a lot of them being really inconsistent, injured or lack the mentality to really go for it.

Time for Medv to step up tonight.
 
robfosters said:
Romania wasn’t even in the EU when she immigrated :rolleyes:

Her parents would have had to apply for a visa to move here, a whole lot different from just any old person being able to plot up whenever they feel like it. Both parents are in finance and they settled in Bromley. Plus they put Emma in private school. They must have had a good financial grounding to do that.

It’s nothing like the illegal or unchecked free movement immigration that people have a problem with.
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Integration into the culture too, complete with plummy accent, and effusively praising the Queen and saying how great a role model the she was after she got that message from her (some people on Twitter had a meltdown over this). Anyway, she’s where she is because of - as she’s said herself - values instilled by her parents; high standards, academic success, self-belief + the development/infrastructure for sport that exists here that allowed her to ascend to elite status.

 
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