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In bromley, south london. we may be 5500 miles away from flushing meadows in new york for the us open, but all eyes here at bromley tennis centre are fixed firmly on the united states as one of their own, emma raducanu, has made it to the semifinals. fantastic. but if you want to see how hard people have to work to make it to such dizzy heights, have a look at this. this is a list ofjunior champions, under eights, boys and girls, and if you look down the list and end up on 2009, there she is, miss e raducanu. she s been doing this for a long time, winning games, winning tournaments. but in the early hours of tomorrow morning, 1am uk time, the biggest game of her life. we re not going to put too much pressure on emma, because we do that in this country, but people here at her home tennis centre are very, very excited. let s now speak to anna, who works and plays here. anna, how has it been, the reaction since you ve seen emma, ....
I could see it happening maybe in a couple of years. i thought maybe she was going to get into the top 100, maybe start to break the top 50. there was definitely always a player there but i had no idea this was going to happen, that she was going to burst out and do what she s done in the us open and at wimbledon. final question for you, chris, do you think with what you ve seen from her, as such a mature player, as she gets to these later rounds, do you think the pressure will be ok? i think she s shown a lot of times already that she s handling it quite well. i think she s already exceeded her own expectations, i think. so i think she ll be ok. thank you very much, chris. so, not too much pressure being put on emma from here in bromley but lots and lots of excitement. the former england football captain rio ferdinand has been giving evidence to mps about racist abuse aimed at football players. he told them racism is becoming normalised because of the prevalence of abuse online and wa ....