The age-old Wimbledon favorites of strawberry and cream have got a new flavor this season. American 15-year-old Cori Gauff has surely hogged the limelight overshadowing the august presence of a league of extraordinary champions. The Gerogia-born “goofy” wunderkind has already become the talk of SW19 at a tournament that has once again been graced by the triumvirate of the multiple-time champions of Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, as well as the indomitable Williams sisters.

If her sensational first-round victory over Venus Williams marked her audacious arrival at the big league of world tennis, Gauff’s second round mauling of Magdalena Rybarikova has underlined the message – “a star is born”.

Since being handed the wildcard for the qualifying event, she has already made a meteoric rise to the highest echelons of tennis divas by being the youngest player to reach the Wimbledon women's singles main draw via qualifying and the youngest to win a round since 1991.

Incredibly, the girl was preparing for a science exam before having jetted into London at short notice after a wildcard was granted to her by the ever-conservative All England Club officials.

The eleventh hour trans-Atlantic flight has been fruitful so far. In fact, one can repeat the overused superlative of ‘amazing’ to describe Goff’s fairy tale arrival at, arguably, the most prestigious annual tennis jamboree.

After two magical rounds, the world no, 313 is standing tall on the cusp of history and just a win away from becoming the youngest player to reach the fourth round at Wimbledon since a then 14-year-old Jennifer Capriati set the magnificent milestone way back in 1990. However, more importantly, a prodigious Gauff has got the opportunity to join the league of youngest champions at a major.

The record is currently being held by an icon, who was also named after another legend of world tennis. Martina Hingis became the youngest singles Grand Slam winner ever in 1997 when the 16 years and 117 days old ‘Swiss Miss’ won the Australian Open singles title. Incidentally, Hingis had won the previous year’s doubles title with Helena Sukova to become the youngest Grand Slam champion of all time at the age of 15 years and 9 months. Her singles crown at Melbourne Park in the Australian summer of 1997 saw her surpassing the previous singles record of Monica Seles, who caused quite a sensation when she downed the legendary Steffi Graf at Roland Garros in 1990. Seles was just 16 years and 189 days when she became the youngest winner of the French Open ever.

Before the multiple major title winning duo, there was one and only Tracy Austin, who lifted the U.S. Open silverware by outclassing the iconic trio of Billie Jean King, Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert en-route to her 1979 title.

Although their respective triumphs fell short of entering the record books, the likes of Maria Sharapova and Arantxa Sanchez were teenagers when they were crowned as Grand Slam champions. Sharapova won her maiden major, the 2004 singles title at Wimbledon at the age of 17 years and 75 days while a football-loving “Barcelona Bumblebee” won the first of her three French Open titles with a remarkable victory over Graf on the hallowed red clay at her age of 17 years and 174 days.

The men’s draw also saw a slew of teenage champions as a 17 years and 110 days old Michael Chang lifted the fabulous Four Musketeers Trophy at Roland Garros in 1989 while his predecessor in the record books, Boris Becker, was a 17 years and 228 days old boy when he was crowned as the Gentlemen’s Trophy at the All England Club in 1985. In fact, “Boom Boom” Becker was younger than that year’s winner of the Wimbledon Boys’ junior singles title, Leonardo Lavalle.

Before Becker, two other Grand Slam greats, Mats Wilander with his 1982 French Open title at 17 years and 293 days and Bjorn Borg with his 1974 title in the Paris suburb at the age of 18 years and 10 days were the earlier teenage champions at majors.

Among the current stalwarts, the men’s title-contender this year and 18-time major winner, Rafael Nadal began his extraordinary multiple-Grand Slam-winning career by winning his first of a dozen of French Open titles at the age of 19 years and three days during his maiden attempt in 2005.

With Gauff already showing some early promise and bagging lavish praise from the likes of Federer and Serena among other tennis greats, the legendary green grasses of the posh London suburb may a witness the youngest winner of the Venus Rosewater dish in history.