The US Open final crowns a sizzling summer for some of the world’s youngest elite athletes, from tennis to football to the Olympics
Teenage tennis stars were supposed to be a thing of the past, a relic of the 1990s along with curtain hairdos and “gastropubs”. But no one told Britain’s Emma Raducanu, 18, and 19-year old Leylah Fernandez of Canada.
On Saturday, the two unseeded, hardly-heard-of (before this summer) players will be in New York battling to be US Open women’s singles champion. It is the first all-teen final since 1999 – when neither was born – which saw Serena Williams, 17, beat an 18-year-old Martina Hingis.
