{"id":104955,"date":"2021-09-12T06:26:49","date_gmt":"2021-09-12T10:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=104955"},"modified":"2021-09-12T05:29:31","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T09:29:31","slug":"congratulation-to-emma-raducanu-winner-of-the-us-open-womens-tennis-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=104955","title":{"rendered":"Congratulation to Emma Raducanu, Winner of the US Open Women&#8217;s Tennis Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 18-year-old Raducanu was being hailed Sunday as the new queen of British sport \u2014 and perhaps the architect of one of the most unlikely sporting achievements of all time \u2014 by winning the U.S. Open as a qualifier.<\/p>\n<p>Her 6-4, 6-3 victory over Leylah Fernandez, broadcast on free-to-air TV in Britain, was in a primetime slot on Saturday evening, allowing the nation to savor a superstar in the making.<\/p>\n<p>Among them, apparently, was the British Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat a sensational match! Huge congratulations to Emma Raducanu,\u201d read a tweet from Boris Johnson\u2019s official account. \u201cYou showed extraordinary skill, poise and guts and we are all hugely proud of you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The queen also sent her congratulations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/sports\/articles\/2021-09-12\/britain-savors-a-new-sporting-star-in-tennis-champ-raducanu\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Britain Savors a New Sporting Star in Tennis Champ Raducanu <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yDeMHuNWDi\">https:\/\/t.co\/yDeMHuNWDi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sunrise News (@SunriseNewsCo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SunriseNewsCo\/status\/1436979404702314496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 12, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 18-year-old Raducanu was being hailed Sunday as the new queen of British sport \u2014 and perhaps the architect of one of the most unlikely sporting achievements of all time \u2014 by winning the U.S. Open as a qualifier. Her<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=104955\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,199,128,110,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-england-uk","category-sports","category-teens-youth","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104955"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104958,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104955\/revisions\/104958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}