Emma Raducanu should be on your radar now.

Tennis is one of my favorite sports, although that doesn't mean that I'm necessarily good at it. For the most part, I enjoy watching people (especially women) play, and the US Open does bring to New York many of the hottest female tennis players to have ever graced the planet. One of them is British teenager Emma Raducanu.

The World No. 150, who was born in Canada to a Romanian father and a Chinese mother before the family moved to England when she was two, has been playing the sport since the age of five. She speaks Mandarin, loves F1, and adores Simona Halep.

Emma wasn't expected to progress this far, but her fairytale in Flushing Meadows shows no sign of ending. She will face Shelby Rogers in the fourth round after beating Spain's Sara Sorribes Tormo in a one-sided match. But can she really go all the way at the US Open? We'll see.

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