Work long enough in the public sector and you come to know the truth of the maxim that success has many fathers while failure is an orphan.
The evidence for it flowed freely on Sunday following the shock US Open triumph of 18-year-old Emma Raducanu – born in Toronto of Romanian and Chinese parents before moving to London when she was two.
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