You wait for one Radwanska and then two come along at once. Barely a fortnight after Agnieszka, her more celebrated older sister, underlined her recent resurgence with a run to the Wimbledon semi-finals, Urszula Radwanska reached the second WTA Tour final of her career with a tenacious three-set win over Slovakia’s Magdalena Rybarikova at the Istanbul Cup.
Yet the 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 victory that sealed that personal landmark, secured in two hours and 23 minutes, will no doubt have meant infinitely more to the Pole than her run to the Rosmalen final three years ago.
Then, Radwanska was riding a wave of success that had been smoothly gathering momentum since 2007, when she won junior Wimbledon and ended the year as the world’s top-ranked junior.