Even for famous athletes around the world, education is priceless.
Emma Raducanu, a 19-year-old tennis prodigy, has promised to enroll in a university as soon as her schedule permits, with Cambridge at the top of her list.
Niculina Raducanu, Emma’s grandma, told the Daily Mail that Emma received an offer from the prestigious university as a result of her strong performance in her A-levels the previous year.
She stated, speaking from her Bucharest, Romania, home,
“I know she wants to go to university as soon as she has the chance to study economics. She was given the option to enroll in classes at Cambridge University.
She is welcome at any time, they said.
Not long after her fairytale US Open victory,
she claimed her granddaughter informed her of Cambridge during one of their twice-weekly video conversations.
“It is my wish for her to finish her education, but it is also her wish,” the 89-year-old former primary school teacher stated.
She plans to pursue both tennis and university, but she will need to be physically fit to do both.
Emma has always divided her time between practicing and attending classes. According to Mrs. Raducanu, she intends to accept her university’s offer as soon as she can.
Last Monday, a Cambridge University spokeswoman declined to acknowledge whether the university has officially offered her a place.
Just weeks before winning the US Open, she attended the very exclusive girls’ grammar school Newstead Wood School, where she was a “model student,” earning an A* in arithmetic and an A in economics.
Thanks to her prize money and endorsement deals with companies like Dior, Nike, Tiffany, and Vodafone, she is estimated to be worth up to £10 million.
Her grandma told her, “Money comes and goes, but knowledge never does.” Following a bizarre injury at the Nottingham Open, the British No. 1 is now getting ready for Wimbledon, which begins on Monday.
But the tennis prodigy’s early pictures demonstrate that she has always risen to the occasion.
At the age of seven, she defeated her elder nine-year-old competitors to win the Kent County Closed Junior Championships while poised with a racket in her hand and a face etched with concentration.
Sasha Hill, one of her opponents, who is 21 years old, said of her as a child: “I remember what she was like, she was really industrious and committed – those are two characteristics that first spring to mind when I think of her.”
Of course, it’s impossible to predict whether a child would go on to win the Grand Slam, but it was obvious that she stood out from the crowd.