Big Salad Posted September 12, 2021 Share Posted September 12, 2021 Congrats to Emma. She has a fabulous career ahead of her. Already a Grand Slam and still so young. Will definetely be ranked her next tournament lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted September 12, 2021 Share Posted September 12, 2021 Born in Canada to parents who are Romanian and Chinese. Claiming her as a Brit is a bit flakey isn’t it? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bickster Posted September 12, 2021 Moderator Popular Post Share Posted September 12, 2021 Just now, Genie said: Born in Canada to parents who are Romanian and Chinese. Claiming her as a Brit is a bit flakey isn’t it? She's lived in the UK since the age of 2, what country do you think she's from? 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted September 12, 2021 Share Posted September 12, 2021 Just now, bickster said: She's lived in the UK since the age of 2, what country do you think she's from? Totally - She was younger in age than when Sir Mohamed Muktar Jama Farah came to call these shores home and he’s accepted as ‘British’ She’s no Gregg Rusedski or Lennox Lewis! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted September 12, 2021 Moderator Share Posted September 12, 2021 7 minutes ago, Genie said: Born in Canada to parents who are Romanian and Chinese. Claiming her as a Brit is a bit flakey isn’t it? Boris Johnson (Prime Bunter), Andrew Strauss, Nasser Hussain (former England Captains) and myriad others were born outside the UK, but are still British. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sidcow Posted September 12, 2021 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted September 12, 2021 5 minutes ago, Genie said: Born in Canada to parents who are Romanian and Chinese. Claiming her as a Brit is a bit flakey isn’t it? She picked up her first tennis racket here and is 100% the product of the Great Britain tennis set up. Hell she actually sounds British which is a lot more than many of her predecessors, she's more British than previous number 1 Konta. Pretty much 90% of people in England came from somewhere else at some point in history. When do you become British? 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam-AVFC Posted September 12, 2021 Share Posted September 12, 2021 12 minutes ago, Genie said: Born in Canada to parents who are Romanian and Chinese. Claiming her as a Brit is a bit flakey isn’t it? I don't think it's us claiming her at all. Presumably she'd be eligible for 4 citizenships but is competing for the only country she'd ever have considered a permanent home. We just got lucky that her British identity won through. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted September 12, 2021 Share Posted September 12, 2021 15 minutes ago, blandy said: Boris Johnson (Prime Bunter), Andrew Strauss, Nasser Hussain (former England Captains) and myriad others were born outside the UK, but are still British. To British parents or parent? I don’t want to rain on the parade, I was just surprised to learn she wasn’t born here and neither were both of her parents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post tonyh29 Posted September 12, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted September 12, 2021 25 minutes ago, Genie said: Born in Canada to parents who are Romanian and Chinese. Claiming her as a Brit is a bit flakey isn’t it? Whoo easy there Nigel 1 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted September 12, 2021 Share Posted September 12, 2021 21 minutes ago, sidcow said: Pretty much 90% of people in England came from somewhere else at some point in history. When do you become British? When you’re a foreigner and win something 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted September 12, 2021 Share Posted September 12, 2021 Just now, tonyh29 said: Whoo easy there Nigel I know that’s what I was opening myself up to Usually nationality is determined by place of birth, or then the place of birth of the parents if say born in another country like a serving soldier for example. Hence why I said it was a bit flakey. She’s lived here a while and she’s won so we’ll take her Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted September 12, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted September 12, 2021 Accent. Accent is what counts. I'm not joking. It'a why Rusedski wasn't fully accepted, but Mo Farah is. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodders Posted September 12, 2021 Share Posted September 12, 2021 Medvedev close to 2 sets up in the men's final. He's a bit of a dick but he's not Novak so that's fine by me. Really.hope he doesn't blow it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jono62 Posted September 12, 2021 Share Posted September 12, 2021 The American crowd are being proper dicks. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayEm Posted September 12, 2021 Share Posted September 12, 2021 1 minute ago, Jono62 said: The American crowd are being proper dicks. Yes, probably went under the radar yesterday because of the match outcome but they were awful last night and they've been awful in this match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacketspuds Posted September 12, 2021 Share Posted September 12, 2021 2 minutes ago, Jono62 said: The American crowd are being proper dicks. And the umpire is **** useless. Just keeps saying please and eventually the noise dies down. The crowd are pretty disgraceful on the Medvedev serve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyp102 Posted September 12, 2021 Share Posted September 12, 2021 8 hours ago, sidcow said: I thought it would probably upset Raducanu more. She was down and had to serve an absolutely crucial serve after a long delay. That's some pressure, it was break point and I'm sure she didn't want a big delay before her serve. Could easily double fault or serve poorly with all that on you. Remarkable composure really. I thought Emma showed great mental strength throughout. She was playing games, getting into Fernandez’ head. Every time they had the rest prior to changing ends, Emma always got up before the umpire called time. It was just a little thing, but it always showed she was ready, even when lost a match. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Silvers Posted September 13, 2021 Share Posted September 13, 2021 Dickovic stuck on 20 majors with Federer and Nadal. Only a matter of time I guess would be great if they all ended up with the same numbers. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrusr Posted September 13, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted September 13, 2021 12 hours ago, Genie said: I know that’s what I was opening myself up to 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted September 13, 2021 Share Posted September 13, 2021 7 hours ago, Phil Silvers said: Dickovic stuck on 20 majors with Federer and Nadal. Only a matter of time I guess would be great if they all ended up with the same numbers. He didnt look right last night. Maybe not used to having the crowd behind him. Its usually the other way around especially in the US open. The clock is ticking. These next gen players hit the ball so hard. Next year will be the last for Djokovic or Nadal to add to their major total. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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