Court 17 at Flushing Meadows can seat 2,700 people. But if Emma Raducanu fulfils the potential she is showing this fortnight – which every pundit agrees is the potential to win majors – then many thousands more will claim to have been there for this astonishing statement victory.

Facing an apparently tough opponent in Sara Sorribes Tormo, Raducanu turned in an almost surreal display of mastery. She has won some extraordinary matches already this summer, but to drop just one game against the world No 41 was a mind-boggling outcome.

This is just not supposed to happen. Experienced battlers like Sorribes Tormo – a former European junior champion who finally cracked the world’s top 50 this season at the age of 24 – do not get bodyslammed 6-0, 6-1 in the third round of majors. Especially not by 18-year-olds making their debut in an overseas grand slam.

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