One might say we needed this.

In a tournament marked by epic player meltdowns , a raucous audience and a grown man grabbing a hat from a child, the unlikely partnership of a 45-year-old tennis icon and 22-year-old Canadian up-and-comer has captured the hearts of U.S. Open crowds.

Tennis legend Venus Williams and young Canadian star Leylah Fernandez had not played together until last week, when they received a wild-card entry into the field at the Grand Slam tournament.

They are now 3-0 — having not lost a set in the process — and are set to play in the quarterfinals today.

On social media, fans have called them "the dream team we did not expect but we deserve."

"It's a feel-good story," Tom Tebbutt, a tennis journalist based in Toronto and member of the Canadian Tennis Hall of F

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