Somehow, she isn’t feeling the pressure. “Is there any expectation? I’m a qualifier so technically, on paper, there’s nothing. No pressure on me,” the Guardian reported her saying after her semi-final victory.

“Honestly, the time here in New York has gone so fast. I’ve just been taking care of each day and, before you know it, I’m in the final and I can’t believe it.”

Raducanu is also taking the time to forge relationships with the heroes who came before her. Radacunu referred to Virginia Wade, who was the last British woman to win the US Open in 1977, as an “absolute legend” after Wade watched her quarter- and semi-final wins. Wade then said that the teenager will be “in that handful who will be dominating tennis.”

Raducanu will be taking on fellow teenager, 19-year-old Leylah Annie Fernandez from Canada. Fernandez arrived at the tournament ranked 73rd, and beat some of the world’s best players including Naomi Osaka and Aryna Sabalenka. With her semi-final victory, Fernandez became the youngest woman to reach a grand slam final since Maria Sharapova at Wimbledon in 2004. Two hours later, Raducanu beat the record again. Regardless of who wins, watching the two fearless and joyful women go head-to-head is going to be quite the match.

British tennis player Emma Raducanu will make history in US Open final