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Watching Emma Raducanu this week has brought to my mind what used to be said of Muhammad Ali: Floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee.
If there is one thing that has stood out above anything else, it is her movement. So free-flowing, it allows her to get into the right position to play the shot, and when she needs to she delivers the sting.
She is in a position that I once found myself in many years ago, facing a Grand Slam final at an unexpectedly early age before you ever expected it would happen.
Emma Raducanu's effortless movement on court brings to mind Muhammad Ali in the ring
My advice would be very limited, just let nature take its course. When you are in your late teens you do not have the same doubts as you might when you are older - that was the way it was with me and it seems to be the case for her.
Leylah Fernandez too, although I would make Raducanu slight favourite for this match. The fact that she has had a less arduous path to the final could be the
