When Emma Raducanu pulled off her amazing US Open tennis victory as a qualifier in 2021 and without dropping a set it couldn’t have been envisaged how the ripples would have carried all the way to Livingston, West Lothian.

Waking up the morning after watching that final victory at Flushing Meadow on television Sandeep Pasupulati, an IT worker, thought ‘I wonder if my daughter, Hasiika, would like to try tennis?’

Wheels were set in motion and today Hasiika, 8, a pupil at St John Ogilvy Primary School, is Scotland’s No 1 player at under-9’s and No 4 at under-10’s. She is also ranked No 15 in GB as an under-9.

What’s more during a competition at the LTA’s national training centre in Roehampton Hasiika actually had a meeting with Raducanu who, at the time, was practising for Wimbledon.

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