Some may regard the British reaction to the stunning, success of Emma Raducanu as being a bit over the top … and they would be partly right.
But the British can be forgiven a little because it really has been such a long time since they tasted any success in women’s tennis — 44 years to be exact.
Part of the overwhelming reaction can be explained by it being all so sudden and totally unexpected.
It also came from a most unlikely source, an 18-year-old woman born in Canada to a Romanian father and Chinese mother, who was aged two when the family moved to England, settling in Bromley.
Before she reached the fourth round at Wimbledon earlier this year, ranked 366th in the world, very few people had heard of her.
After last week’s success she is ranked 23rd and world famous.
She was the 400-1 qualifier ranked 150th who won the US…
