U.S. Open women final | Only one fairytale finish in teenager showdown

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With history at stake, Raducanu and Fernandez meet at Arthur Ashe Stadium. Teenagers Emma Raducanu and Leylah Fernandez have served noticed they are the faces of a new women’s tennis generation, yet only one gets a fairytale ending in Saturday’s US Open final.
British 18-year-old Raducanu, the first qualifier to reach a Grand Slam final, and 19-year-old Fernandez, a 73rd-ranked Canadian left-hander, meet at Arthur Ashe Stadium with history at stake and drama assured.“It will be a tough match for sure. She’s playing great tennis,” Raducanu said. “But I think I’m also playing very good tennis. I’m excited to go out there.”
It’s the first Grand Slam final between teenagers since 17-year-old Serena Williams beat Martina Hingis, 18, at the 1999 US Open, and just the eighth all-teenager Slam final in the Open era (since 1968).
One will walk off with her first Grand Slam trophy on the same court where Williams, a 23-time Slam winner about to turn 40, took her first 22 years ago.
“There’s no limit to my potential, to what I can do,” Fernandez said. “Every day we just got to keep working hard, we got to keep going for it. Nothing’s impossible. I’m just glad right now everything’s going well.”
Raducanu is trying to become the first British woman to win a Grand Slam title since Virginia Wade at Wimbledon in 1977 and the first British woman to win the US Open since Wade in 1968.