Two Americans playing against each other.....#2 seed, Coco Gauff vs #19 Emma Navarro

[a kennedy]

2. and did not know this about Emma Navarro........daughter of a billionaire, YES a billionaire.

Just like compatriot Jessica Pegula, Navarro is the daughter of a billionaire.

Her father Ben Navarro is founder and CEO of Sherman Financial Group and is valued by Forbes as being worth $1.5 billion.

He has also invested heavily in tennis. In 2022, he paid nearly $300 million to buy the Cincinnati Open – a warmup event for the US Open every year.

In an interview with the Tennis Channel earlier this season, Navarro credited her calm demeanour and mindset to her dad.

“He’s probably the smartest guy I know and he’s dropped a lot of knowledge and wisdom on my siblings and I over the years,” she said.

“He’s taught me a bunch about the perspective I want to take into things, especially on-court stuff.”

Despite being set to inherit a fortune, Navarro looks determined to make her own name and has a chance to do exactly that at this year’s Wimbledon.

She will next face Italian Jasmine Paolini on Tuesday for a place in the semifinals.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/08/sport/emma-navarro-wimbledon-us-tennis-spt-intl/index.html