And as long as Emma Raducanu keeps bringing home that bacon in the manner with which she acquired the US Open women’s singles title, long will it remain so. Her backstory is now familiar far beyond tennis lovers, being brought up from the age of two in Bromley, the pleasant provincial town on the fringes of Kent to which her parents, quite well to do as financial consultants, moved and took up British citizenship. It was not long before their daughter was learning her craft at the local tennis club.

Now her achievement at 18 in becoming the first qualifier to win a Grand Slam, the first British woman to do so in over half a century, all without dropping a single set throughout the tournament, has taken the tennis world’s breath away.

I kid you not. The adulation accorded the unbelievably talented teenager here - and in the United States - last weekend did not fall far short of that heaped upon Princess Diana when she first hit the tabloids.

One newspaper on Monday (September 13) devoted 14 pages to her and her triumph in New York as Emma-mania swept the nation like a welcoming cool breeze on a hot summer’s day.

Already she is being lined up for a gong - nothing short of an Order of the British Empire (OBE) - in the next honours list and even becoming the youngest recipient of a damehood would not raise too many eyebrows following the knighthood given to double Wimbledon winner Andy Murray.

So no need to look beyond effervescent Emma for this year’s Sports Personality of the Year Award – and for once the emphasis will be on personality with a capital P.

Messages from Queen Elizabeth II, Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the Duchess of Cambridge were received within hours of her celebrating her unprecedented success.

Her heritage becomes as inconsequential as that of Sir Mo Farah and the handful of others who have made the transition from unknown immigrant to hero-worshipped icon.

She seems to be that rarity in sport - a natural. She has the lot, the looks of a Vogue covergirl, the figure and poise of a film star and most importantly the ability to attain and retain the status of superstardom. At least we hope so.

The nagging question, of course, is whether she can continue to overcome the sort of pressures which forced her to quit mid-match with breathing difficulties during Wimbledon. Already there are an army of acolytes and agents looking after her interests and the fortunes she is forecast to amass - £100 million ($140 million/€115 million) at least is the notional figure. Her final victory over the similarly talented teenager Leylah Fernandez who, like Emma, was born in Canada, has seen her bank £1.8 million ($/€2.1 million).

One tennis correspondent likened the Emma effect in the US to "Beatlemania". Now welcome to Emma-mania.

Yet the sobering thought is that her win still only elevates the teenager to world number 23 which suggests there is still some way to go before an ultimate conquest.

However it is good to know that Emma does have other interests in life, apart from tennis, notably history and architecture, which she studied at grammar school and it has not taken long for the news hounds to discover that there is a boy friend - note not described as a boyfriend - in tow, a 19-year-old lad she has known since her infant-school days and has been her constant companion and supporter.

Whether this is a love match should be none of our business for those that matter are the ones she wins on court.

It is so easy to go overboard in the light of such a stunning victory, but we must remember how many youngsters brimming with talent and potential have fallen by the wayside once they became enmeshed by celebrity. Tennis is particularly notorious in this respect where we need only to cite the fate of American teenager Jennifer Capriati, who fell so heavily by the wayside with what was described as a drugs-related tennis burnout after being a world number one, winner of three Grand Slam titles and an Olympic gold medal at Barcelona in 1992.

There is every indication that Raducanu has her feet planted firmly on the ground, with the physical and mental strength to stay at the top of her game. She has brains, beauty - and a backhand. What a winning combination! A superstar truly has been born, one eminently worthy of our admiration and support.