Inside Emma Raducanu’s stalking nightmare: How British tennis star was hounded across the world and driven to tears by ‘fixated’ man who wanted hugs and selfies

By the time Emma Raducanu sat down for a Q&A session with an excited group of ball kids at the Dubai Tennis Championships this week, she was already three weeks and four countries into a terrifying ordeal. You would not have known it.

As Raducanu sat smiling and cross-legged, she sportingly fielded questions about whether she had ever been a ball girl (no), which player from the past she would most like to have played against (Ashleigh Barty), and what advice she would offer aspiring tennis players (work hard daily).