Less than a few minutes after reaching the US Open Main Draw for the first time, Francesca Jones rumbled in her racket bag and grabbed her mobile phone.
The 24-year-old Brit wanted to call her parents Adele and Simon, who are back home in the UK.
Why didn’t they look at their daughter in New York? Because they couldn’t get dogsitter.
Sharing the excavation of three qualifying rounds was the immediate reaction of Jones to beating the Dutch opponent Arianne Hartono.
“My parents cannot travel with me everywhere, so I made sure that I can share those moments with them as quickly as possible,” Jones told BBC Sport after sealing her place in the main drawing in New York.
“I want them to feel as possible under it, seen how much they have sacrificed to give me opportunities.
“They are not here because a dog sitter was not available – the dogs come first!”
After she had sealed her 6-2 6-4 victory with an ace, Jones covered her face with joy and ran to the members of her team who are the court.
Jones was born with a genetic disorder, which means that she has three fingers and a thumb on each hand, three toes on her right foot and four toes on her left side.
Doctors told the player born in Yorkshire to forget to play tennis games professionally – but she defeated the opportunities after she had moved to Spain as a teenager.
Learning her craft on the clay was a different path to many British, and her way to the US Open Main Draw was usually unconventional.
Jones was the best seed in the women’s qualification after he was just short of the shut -off date for automatic access.
Since then she has cracked the top 100 in the world for the first time and moved to 86th after winning back-to-back titles on the WTA 125 Tour-de Sport under the main tour.
“I’ve always done things differently – so why should I change now?” Said Jones.
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