{"id":9049,"date":"2025-02-21T21:13:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T22:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/?p=9049"},"modified":"2025-02-21T23:48:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T23:48:40","slug":"emma-raducanu-followed-across-four-countries-by-terrifying-man-says-her-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/21\/emma-raducanu-followed-across-four-countries-by-terrifying-man-says-her-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu followed across four countries by \u2018terrifying\u2019 man, says her coach"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Emma Raducanu’s ‘stalker’ had been allegedly following her since the Singapore Open (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The ‘terrifying’ man who targeted Emma Raducanu<\/a> in Dubai followed the British tennis star across multiple countries, says her temporary coach.<\/p>\n

Raducanu\u00a0broke down in tears and was in clear distress during her match<\/a>\u00a0at the Dubai Tennis Championships on Tuesday, after an alleged ‘stalker’ was removed from the crowd for displaying \u2018fixated behaviour\u2019.<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old, who hid behind the umpire’s chair<\/a>, and was later able to complete her match against Karolina Muchova, described the harassment she endured<\/a>\u00a0as a \u2018difficult experience\u2019 in an\u00a0Instagram<\/a>\u00a0post on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Police in Dubai confirmed on Thursday that the man had been handed a restraining order<\/a> and has been forced to ‘maintain distance’ from Raducanu, with the individual also banned from future tournaments.<\/p>\n

Roman Kelecic, who has been coaching Raducanu on a temporary basis while she seeks a new permanent coach after a split with Nick Cavaday, has now claimed that the man had been following her since Singapore.<\/p>\n

Raducanu headed to Singapore in January and then travelled to the United Arab Emirates for the Abu Dhabi Open, with the Briton later playing in Qatar before a second trip to the UAE for the Dubai Tennis Championships.<\/p>\n

\u2018This man followed her to Singapore, to Abu Dhabi – where I was with her – again in Doha, now in Dubai and we noticed him,\u2019 Kelecic, who also coached Raducanu as a junior, told Croatian outlet Net<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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He had a strategy that was terrifying, he thought everything through, calculated it.<\/p>\n<p>‘It\u2019s terrifying how much\u00a0he, in essence, thought about it all and planned it. 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