Leylah Fernandez shares uplifting message for New Yorkers after us open loss on 9/11

“I hope I could be as robust and as resilient as New York has been the previous 20 years,” introduced Leylah Fernandez, whose personal resilient spirit spearheaded a unprecedented run on the US Open.

Fernandez addressed the hundreds of New Yorkers in attendance at Arthur Ashe throughout the 20th anniversary of 9/11. Dealing with off in opposition to Nice Britain’s Emma Raducanu for the US Open win, Fernandez misplaced a tricky match, 6-4, 6-3, that capped her underdog run — first began when Fernandez shocked tennis followers by defeating 2020’s US Open champ, Naomi Osaka.

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Each Fernandez and Raducanu led an unimaginable match on Saturday. The primary rating of the preliminary set sported a back-and-forth duel for break level that in the end landed in Raducanu’s favor. Quite a lot of unlucky errors by Fernandez gave approach for the proficient Raducanu, 18, to win the match after two units, however the younger champ voiced true admiration for Fernandez’s run in Flushing Meadows.

“Leylah’s at all times going to play nice tennis and at all times going to combat, that’s simply the competitor she is and that’s why she’s right here within the last,” introduced Raducano throughout the post-match ceremony. 

She added: “I knew that I’d need to dig deep. I fell, in some way, and I assumed that will throw myself off steadiness as a result of I used to be going to serve. I used to be simply praying not for a double fault however we acquired by way of it and I believe simply staying within the second, specializing in what I needed to do and my course of and the mindset simply actually helped.”

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Fernandez defeated Osaka throughout the third spherical of the Open, then confronted off in opposition to Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina within the Girls’s Singles quarterfinals. Each Fernandez and Raducanu mentioned they sit up for competing in opposition to one another for many years to return — that means the game of girls’s tennis is in good palms.

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