Emma Raducanu has slammed the questions related to her personal life, as the most irrelevant details of her personal life have made it to the headlines.
The interest in her private life has been appalling, and Raducanu called the questions prying into her privacy ‘terrible’. Referring to her compatriot Cameron Norrie’s post-match press conference, when a reporter asked him whether he was dating Raducanu, she said,” The questions asked to Cam were terrible. That was terrible.”
Norrie, who was being supported in his player box that day by his long-term partner, was as baffled as he was bemused.
Now, the intrusiveness from strangers has become a part of her life.“I guess it comes with the territory, people being so curious. I think they’re more curious about this news than any tennis results and tennis news. But I just keep to myself, my private life to one side. It’s always funny when people try to find something out, but I try not to read into it so much,” Raducanu told The Guardian.
Ghosts of past
Raducanu has a long history of strangers stalking her, as one person was arrested and handed a five-year restraining order after stealing items from her front door in 2021. Another person who followed her across four different countries was identified and blocked from purchasing Wimbledon tickets. He had previously been banned from WTA events and given a restraining order by Dubai police.
“After the Dubai incident, that was probably the worst [public attention] I’ve had,” she says. “I remember straight afterwards, I found it very difficult going out. I definitely had a bit of a leftover lag effect. But I’ve been a lot more astute, a lot more, I’d say, safe and I have someone with me. I don’t really go out on my own as much. No solo walks. Just always having someone watching my back,” Raducanu said about her worries related to safety.
Apart from such horrible incidents, she has also struggled with her body in the past two years. In 2023, after struggling physically for a long time, she underwent surgeries on both wrists and her left ankle.
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