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Emma Raducanu - fantastic!

59 replies

custardbear · 11/09/2021 23:19

Don't have an interest particularly in tennis but very proud of a fellow woman, fellow person from Bromley and someone who braved it through such spotlight type stresses -
Brilliant win Emma 🥳🥂

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LindaEllen · 11/09/2021 23:20

I don't even like tennis, it was on because DP does, and I ended up enthralled and cheering 😂😂. Well done Emma!

CatherineCawood · 11/09/2021 23:28

Fantastic wasn't she! They look so young together on the podium that it looks like some kind of secondary school tournament Grin

SuperbLyrebird · 11/09/2021 23:50

They were both so graceful. I stopped watching tennis when the women started grunting like the men.

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GoGadgetGo · 11/09/2021 23:51

Well done her. Clap clap. They were both great. Two young women who can promote tennis and did a great job.

JaneExotic · 11/09/2021 23:55

@SuperbLyrebird

They were both so graceful. I stopped watching tennis when the women started grunting like the men.

What the actual…?
I think you’ll find that they were grunting like women exerting themselves at a professional sports level 🙄

embolass · 11/09/2021 23:58

Bromley? in Canada right ?

Coronado2 · 12/09/2021 00:00

I'm not really a tennis fan but I did enjoy it and was so pleased for her when she won. They're both so young, it's incredible to be able to go out there and play like that in front of the world!

LetterOfTheLawFella · 12/09/2021 00:02

@embolass

Bromley? in Canada right ?
Born in Canada but raised in Bromley from 2 years old.
Neverunderstood · 12/09/2021 00:02

Well done Emma! Wishing I’d watched it but was at work so wasn’t able to :-(

LetterOfTheLawFella · 12/09/2021 00:03

Congratulations Emma. An awesome achievement 👏

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embolass · 12/09/2021 00:12

Fantastic achievement nonetheless

MyOtherProfile · 12/09/2021 00:14

@embolass

Born in Canada, daughter of a Romanian father and Chinese mother. Not British. If she arrived aged 2 on a dingy on a beach would we claiming her at that point in her life?
I hope so, yes.

She was amazing!

Myusernameisnotmyusernameno · 12/09/2021 00:16

@embolass

Born in Canada, daughter of a Romanian father and Chinese mother. Not British. If she arrived aged 2 on a dingy on a beach would we claiming her at that point in her life?
WTAF Hmm
SuperbLyrebird · 12/09/2021 00:20

Is she a British citizen or not?

MrsLargeEmbodied · 12/09/2021 00:20

@embolass

Born in Canada, daughter of a Romanian father and Chinese mother. Not British. If she arrived aged 2 on a dingy on a beach would we claiming her at that point in her life?
good point, but unnecessary in this context.
ElizabethTudor · 12/09/2021 00:21

@embolass

Born in Canada, daughter of a Romanian father and Chinese mother. Not British. If she arrived aged 2 on a dingy on a beach would we claiming her at that point in her life?
Jesus. A) She was brought up here from aged 2. And clearly her and her parents now have British citizenship. Therefore they are British. B) re your second point. Yes. Anyone who comes here and obtains British citizenship and wants it, is therefore British.
AgnesNaismith · 12/09/2021 00:22

Yes, she is. She’s playing for our multicultural and inclusive country and she smashed it.

ElizabethTudor · 12/09/2021 00:24

@SuperbLyrebird

Emma Raducanu - fantastic!
ElizabethTudor · 12/09/2021 00:25

And it says her country (sports) is Great Britain

SuperbLyrebird · 12/09/2021 00:29

Thanks ElizabethTudor I thought I was losing my marbles for a minute Smile

embolass · 12/09/2021 08:38

Let’s ask our Home Secretary….

AccidentallyOnPurpose · 12/09/2021 08:41

@embolass

Born in Canada, daughter of a Romanian father and Chinese mother. Not British. If she arrived aged 2 on a dingy on a beach would we claiming her at that point in her life?
Oh I see this bullshit has started.
MarshaBradyo · 12/09/2021 08:41

@embolass

Born in Canada, daughter of a Romanian father and Chinese mother. Not British. If she arrived aged 2 on a dingy on a beach would we claiming her at that point in her life?
Whattt

It’s not unusual to have a passport from a country you are not born in. I do

Nasty comment just enjoy her success

devildeepbluesea · 12/09/2021 08:46

@embolass

Born in Canada, daughter of a Romanian father and Chinese mother. Not British. If she arrived aged 2 on a dingy on a beach would we claiming her at that point in her life?
Yes actually, I would. What a fucking twat comment.

She's a product of the British tennis system in any event.

Well done Emma 👏👏🏆🎾