{"id":71749,"date":"2025-08-16T18:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T18:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/71749\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T18:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T18:45:07","slug":"emma-raducanu-makes-alarming-confession-about-safety-concerns-in-honest-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/71749\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu makes alarming confession about safety concerns in honest interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emma Raducanu has admitted the constant questions about her private life are bemusing, as she suggested the papparazzi who follow her daily routine at \u2018really freaky\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Rumours of a relationship between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/emma-raducanu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Raducanu<\/a> and world No 2 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/carlos-alcaraz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> have flowed in the world\u2019s media in recent weeks, with news that the duo are set to team up in next week\u2019s US Open mixed doubles event fuelling those stories.<\/p>\n<p>Raducanu has made it clear that she is \u2018just friends\u2019 with Alcaraz and when asked about the constant interest in her private life by <a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/aug\/15\/i-am-tough-emma-raducanu-on-legacy-of-her-us-open-win-stalking-ordeal-and-why-therapy-wont-help-her\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a>, she offered up this response.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI guess it comes with the territory, people being so curious,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think they\u2019re 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\u2019s always funny when people try to find something out, but I try not to read into it so much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More Tennis News<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/emma-raducanu-criticism-snipers-usopen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tennis legend claims Emma Raducanu\u2019s snipers are \u2018too quick to criticise\u2019 ahead of US Open<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/emma-raducanu-can-deliver-shock-waves-us-open-serena-williams-coach\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emma Raducanu \u2018can deliver shock waves\u2019 at US Open after Aryna Sabalenka battle<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Celebrities of Raducanu\u2019s ilk have to deal with constant media attention and she suggested the persistent attention she gets from paparazzi photographers is a source of annoyance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really freaky, because you don\u2019t know they\u2019re there,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then you\u2019ll see a photo of yourself the next day, and you\u2019ll be like: \u2018There\u2019s no way they were there.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Raducanu has also been forced to deal with stalkers and received unwanted attention since she shot to world fame following her US Open win in 2021, with that issue<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/karolina-muchova-shares-account-of-strange-emma-raducanu-incident-in-dubai\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> coming to the fore again<\/a> as a fan was removed from her match in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/emma-raducanu-stalker-dubai-terrifying-details-coach\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dubai after he was deemed to be \u201cexhibiting fixated behaviour\u201d.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>She admitted her confidence was shaken by the unwanted attention and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/wimbledon\/emma-raducanu-praises-wimbledon-amazing-job-stalker-scare\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has changed the way she goes about her daily routine since then.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter the Dubai incident, that was probably the worst [public attention] I\u2019ve had,\u201d she added. \u201cI remember straight afterwards, I found it very difficult going out. I definitely had a bit of a leftover lag effect. But I\u2019ve been a lot more astute, a lot more, I\u2019d say, safe and I have someone with me. I don\u2019t really go out on my own as much. No solo walks. Just always having someone watching my back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is a tragedy that Raducanu and other female athletes are subjected to unwanted attention from admirers who are not following them for their sporting excellence.<\/p>\n<p>Grand Slam tennis legend Gordon Reid spoke to Tennis365 about the challenges facing Raducanu, as he admitted her US Open win put her on a platform that has been hard to deal with.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s really hard to fathom what she\u2019s experienced since winning the US Open,\u201d Reid told Tennis365.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s something that\u2019s probably at any age it will be difficult to deal with, never mind the age she won it at and all the attention she had on her all of a sudden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou feel for her in that way and it has maybe taken her a bit of time to find her feet again and, you know, get comfortable in that spotlight, but she\u2019s been in brilliant form recently and is looking good going into the US Open.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think if she hadn\u2019t had that win and at the US Open, then everybody in the country would be talking about how well she is doing, looking at the trajectory she has been on over the last few months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the expectations changed when she won a Slam. There are too many people out there who are too quick to criticise, but I think she will be confident going into the US Open and it will be great to see how well she can do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/emma-raducanu-ranking-top10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emma Raducanu back into top 10 of tennis rankings and Victoria Mboko is also on the rise<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu has admitted the constant questions about her private life are bemusing, as she suggested the papparazzi&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-71749","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}