Tennis - Bencic hopes teenagers Raducanu, Fernandez are protected from hype

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NEW YORK : U.S. Open semi-finalists Emma Raducanu and Leylah Fernandez must be protected from the hype and pressure that the teenagers are likely to encounter in the coming months after their New York heroics, Olympic champion Belinda Bencic said on Wednesday.British 18-year-old Raducanu brushed aside Ben

NEW YORK : U.S. Open semi-finalists Emma Raducanu and Leylah Fernandez must be protected from the hype and pressure that the teenagers are likely to encounter in the coming months after their New York heroics, Olympic champion Belinda Bencic said on Wednesday.

A day earlier, 19-year-old Canadian Fernandez, who had taken out four-times major champion Naomi Osaka in the third round and three-times Grand Slam winner Angelique Kerber in the fourth, outlasted fifth seed Elina Svitolina https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/fearless-fernandez-holds-nerve-reach-us-open-semi-finals-2021-09-07 to reach the semis.

"I just really hope everyone will protect them and will hope the best for them and not try to... not destroy, but... put so much pressure and so much hype around them so it gets too much.

 

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