"Charged and angry" is the exact opposite of what she was all tournament. Also, a weird idea that her 'Hispanic temperament' demands it...she's of Pinay and Ecuadorian descent, and Canadian born and raised. Her box was literally telling her to smile at various points. She was annoyed that it took more than five minutes to apply a band-aid at a critical moment. Not at all Raducanu's fault; there had to be a timeout given that she was bleeding. But from Fernandez's point of view, it took an awfully long time.
She seemed pretty charged and angry to me. I just googled Ecuador and it is the 10th highest Hispanic population in the world. The name Fernandez also seems to go along with that. In my opinion that young woman thrives on a fight and feeds on the emotional energy of it. And come on, she could see the girl being bandaged. What did she want, some 80s style spray on skin? It was pure gamesmanship. I am being nice, suggesting that she was keeping herself charged, but we could say emotion is not involved and then she was trying to intimidate her opponent and that is even worse...
I'm glad Ricciardo is at a team that is heading very quickly in the right direction. I always thought Renault was an odd move for him. He should be on the podium a lot more with his talent.
Her father moved to Canada from Ecuador when he was four. As such, you're making an argument based, I guess, on blood. But Ecuadorians, while Mestizo (mixed Spanish/Amerindian ancestry) lean much more heavily toward the Amerindian side for a variety of reasons. It's utter nonsense in every way, shape and form. Weird that in your mind Raducanu, who is Canadian born, to Chinese and Romanian parents, gets to be a "typical icy Englishwoman", while Fernandez is defined by her "Hispanic temperament". Wonder why that is.
Wow you never stop. So she is Hispanic but not that sort of Hispanic and Raducanu is Chinese and Romanian so I am what? Come out with your nonsense. Ask any Hispanic about the Hispanic temperament. Or just play PC police. Your choice. Yawn o Rama.
Dude. She's Canadian. Her mother is Canadian. Her father has lived in Canada since he was a preschooler. This isn't "PC police". This is "you're on some serious bullshit grounded in absolutely nothing but the fact that she's brown and has a Hispanic surname".
But I wasnt raised by any English people and I don't have any English blood.... This is getting confusing...
I didn't think it was vague at all. I thought it was a very specific ethnic stereotype? One every Hispanic person I ever met has agreed with...
As we are on a bizarre note, I am British, have an Irish passport but support Kenya in athletics, the West Indies in cricket and support the Israelí football.team.
Great, great one-two for McLaren there. Really so nice to see, especially of the back of the win from big McLaren fan, Raducanu. What a fabulous weekend for non-football sports. Regarding the crash. That's a racing incident all day long. Max was entitled to be there - I mean, if anything it's *slightly* Lewis's fault as he gave him precisely zero room, but it's very marginal. Not anything to get het up about, and made it a more interesting race as a result. Perez annoyed me more by being very Red Bull, and not giving the place back that he very clearly won illegally. Same as he tried to do in the sprint race, but at least he got punished on this one eventually.
So, Emma Raducanu was the subject of discussion at the game I was refereeing this morning, I heard her on the F1 coverage and now Martin Tyler has brought her up. The country is still buzzing.
I agree that it was a racing incident , but if I HAD to apportion blame , I would say it was down to Max .
