Leylah Fernandez may have come up short in the U.S. Open final on Saturday, but the Canadian teen won over the New York crowd after the match when she paid homage to the city's resilience on the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
The 19-year-old Fernandez, speaking on court moments after her improbable run came to an end, appeared to be done with her post-match interview until she asked for the microphone back so she could address the crowd inside Arthur Ashe Stadium in Queens.
"I just want to say that I hope I can be as strong and as resilient as New York has been the past 20 years." "Leylah asking for the mic back to acknowledge 9/11 was one of the classiest, most empathetic, and mature things I’ve ever seen in a post game moment ... and she’s only 19. I’m blown away," Roddick wrote on Twitter.
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