She broke out in tears
Incident on the pitch: Stalker arrested by tennis star
21.02.2025 – 7:30 a.m.Reading time: 2 min.
At a tournament in Dubai, tennis professional Emma Raducanu broke out on the square. The reason: a stalker in the audience. Now the man has been arrested.
The police in Dubai arrested a man after a stalker incident around the tennis player Emma Raducanu. The British tennis player broke out in tears during her match against Karolína Muchová on Tuesday evening and hid behind the referee chair. Previously, she had discovered a man in the audience who was said to have approached her the day before on the creation of the tournament and was said to have shown “fixed behavior”. The tournament managers reacted immediately and had it removed from the stadium.
In a communication by the Dubai government’s media office, it says: “After the complaint of Raducanu, the Dubai police arrested a tourist who approached her, photographed her, photographed her and behaved like this during the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships that she got into trouble. “
According to the announcement, the man signed an official obligation to stay away from the athlete after the arrest. He was also excluded from future tournaments. Raducanu decided to drop the indictment against the man. It was not confirmed whether the man has been released. According to reports, he should come from Great Britain, but his identity remains unknown.
On Instagram, Raducanu wrote a day after the incident that she had had a “difficult experience”, but felt proud to have ended the match despite the circumstances. It is not the first time that the 22-year-old was confronted with a stalker: three years ago, a man received a five-year contact block after running 37 kilometers to her house, taking her father’s shoe with him as a souvenir and leaving a note I said that he “deserves love”.