What else could throw up ridiculous narratives quite like sports?
Emma Raducanu's remarkable US Open victory last week felt like something straight out of a fairytale; a true Cinderella story.
A few days have passed, but many are still picking their jaws up off the floor and rubbing their eyes just in case it wasn't all some kind of bonkers dream.
Overnight, Raducanu has become a sporting sensation; the poster girl for British tennis and the darling of a nation.
She was the first women's qualifier ever to reach the US Open final, let alone win it and is now the youngest Grand Slam winner since Maria Sharapova in 2004.