“Impossible is nothing,” says Leylah Fernandez as she faces fellow teen Emma Raducanu for the title. It will be the first time since the 1999 US Open that the championship will be contested by two teenagers. USOpen
But the 19-year-old will now take on British qualifier Emma Raducanu, who has also beaten huge odds to set up an all-teenage final on Saturday, September 11 .
"Impossible is nothing," said Fernandez."Like my dad would tell me all the time, there's no limit to my potential, to what I can do.” With British tennis royalty Tim Henman and Virginia Wade looking on from the stands, Raducanu fended off seven break points across her first two service games and capitalized on a trio of double faults from Sakkari on the way to a 5-0 lead in the first set.
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