{"id":192626,"date":"2025-06-17T20:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T20:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/192626\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T20:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T20:54:11","slug":"emma-raducanu-stalker-applied-for-wimbledon-tickets-after-dubai-open-incident-tennis-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/192626\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu stalker applied for Wimbledon tickets after Dubai Open incident | Tennis News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man who was given a restraining order for stalking Emma Raducanu has been caught trying to apply for Wimbledon tickets.<\/p>\n

The All England Club’s security system highlighted the man’s name as one that had been red-flagged after an incident in Dubai in February that left the British tennis star in tears.<\/p>\n

His attempt to enter the public ballot was blocked.<\/p>\n

Raducanu revealed she “couldn’t see the ball through tears” and could “barely breathe” during the stalking ordeal that took place at the Dubai Open.<\/p>\n

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During a match at the Dubai Open, Raducanu was left in tears as a man was ejected from the stands<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old approached the umpire’s chair in tears just two games into her defeat to Karolina Muchova after receiving repeated unwanted attention from a “fixated” man before and during the second-round match.<\/p>\n

Raducanu disclosed she had previously been approached twice by the man off-court.<\/p>\n

The man, who was removed from the stands, was subsequently given a restraining order by Dubai police and his name was circulated around tennis authorities.<\/p>\n

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Sky Sports News’ senior reporter Rob Dorsett and tennis commentator Jonathan Overend explained how serious a threat a lack of security can be to young tennis players and what needs to be done to prevent further problems<\/p>\n

Raducanu opted not to press charges but the individual has been banned from future tournaments.<\/p>\n

“I was obviously very distraught,” Raducanu said at the time. “I saw him in the first game of the match and I was like, I don’t know how I’m going to finish. I literally couldn’t see the ball through tears. I could barely breathe.<\/p>\n

“I was like, I need to just take a breather here.”<\/p>\n

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Former British No 1 Sam Smith said she expected both the WTA and ATP tours to step up their security after Raducanu was reportedly targeted by a man who ‘exhibited fixated behaviour’ during her match at the Dubai Open<\/p>\n

Speaking to BBC Sport a month on from the incident in Dubai, Raducanu said that she is happy with the level of protection she is now receiving, saying: “[It] could have been dealt with better. Since that incident I have definitely got increased attention and greater security.<\/p>\n

“All we can do is look at what happened and react to it in a better way, in a more positive way, rather than looking back and blaming the situation. Now it is being dealt with better, so for me that’s important.<\/p>\n

“I’m always now very aware and not necessarily doing things on my own any more. I’m always with someone and always being watched.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who was given a restraining order for stalking Emma Raducanu has been caught trying to apply…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-192626","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"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114700698622935347","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}