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Raducanu 'isn't hiding from anything any more' after stalking ordeal

2025-12-02 19:00:19
Raducanu felt sufficiently comfortable to commute to London by train from Bromley in the past few weeks

British tennis player Emma Raducanu says she no longer feels she is "hiding from anything" after being targeted earlier this year by a man who "exhibited fixated behaviour".

The 2021 US Open champion was distressed and tearful when she saw a man who had followed her to four successive tournaments in the stands during a match in Dubai in February.

The man, who was removed and later given a restraining order by Dubai police, had given Raducanu a letter and asked for a photograph in a coffee shop the previous day.

The Briton says she has "got over" the incident - but does, however, admit to being occasionally unnerved when seeing printed photographs of herself.

"What did creep me out was I saw a photo of myself in London, and I didn't see the paparazzi [photographers] taking it," the 23-year-old said.

"I was with my two best friends. I just didn't see the 'paps'. That's obviously creepy, when you're like: I didn't see them - how did they take this photo?

"But other than that, I feel good because someone's always watching my back."