Karolina Muchova has called the incident, in which a man displayed \u2018fixated behaviour\u2019 towards Emma Raducanu during the Czech\u2019s match against the Brit, a \u2018strange experience.\u2019<\/p>\n
Muchova defeated McCartney Kessler 6-3, 1-6, 7-6(5) in the round of 16 at the WTA 1000 event in Dubai, but it was the incident during her opening match against Raducanu<\/a> that has caught headlines.<\/p>\n At 2-0 during their match, the 2021 US Open<\/a> champion appeared in distress, displaying tears as she talked to the umpire. It was later revealed that a man in the crowd had exhibited \u2018fixated behaviour\u2019 towards Raducanu, having already approached the Brit the day before.<\/p>\n \u201cYeah, it was strange situation,\u201d said Muchova.<\/p>\n \u201cI honestly went for my serving. I didn\u2019t even know something was happening. Then I saw she\u2019s not on the other side. So I went to check with the referee what is happening. She told me what is happening.<\/p>\n \u201cYeah, obviously you don\u2019t want to see these things to be happening to anyone, to any woman, any girl. So I was just trying to be there, maybe calm her down a little bit.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m happy they solved it pretty fast. I think she was fine after a while. Then we just kept going with the match.\u201d<\/p>\n The Dubai quarterfinalist commented that she had not personally experienced anything similar to the incident: \u201cI\u2019m lucky around me it\u2019s nice fans usually. Yeah, I wasn\u2019t in the situation. Again, I felt sorry for her and for anyone who has to go through this.<\/p>\n \u201cObviously there are people texting us after matches all the time. Sometimes not the nicest messages. But never it happened to me that someone would like actually approach me live. Yeah, I guess I\u2019m lucky it didn\u2019t happen to me.\u201d<\/p>\n Despite the horrific incident, the Brit battled on \u2013 eventually losing 7-6(6), 6-4 to her opponent.<\/p>\n Latest WTA News<\/strong><\/p>\n Elena Rybakina\u2019s banned coach Stefano Vukov threatened to sue former world No 1<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n \u2018Difficult experience\u2019 \u2013 Emma Raducanu speaks for first time since distressing Dubai incident<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n A few days later, Raducanu took to her Instagram to release her first statement: \u201cThank you for the messages of support. Difficult experience yesterday (Tuesday) but I\u2019ll be okay and proud of how I came back and competed despite what happened at the start of the match,\u201d the Brit wrote.<\/p>\n \u201cThank you to Karolina for being a great sport and best of luck to her for the rest of the tournament.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOn Monday, February 17, Emma Raducanu was approached in a public area by a man who exhibited fixated behaviour,\u201d the official WTA statement said.<\/p>\n \u201cThis same individual was identified in the first few rows during Emma\u2019s match on Tuesday at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships and subsequently ejected. He will be banned from all WTA events pending a threat assessment.\u201d<\/p>\n Karolina Muchova will next face Sorana Cirstea in the quarterfinals of the WTA 1000 in Dubai.<\/p>\n The Czech leads their head-to-head 4-1, winning the last two meetings, and being victorious during their 2023 match at the same event.<\/p>\n The post Karolina Muchova shares account of \u2018strange\u2019 Emma Raducanu incident in Dubai<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Karolina Muchova has called the incident, in which a man displayed \u2018fixated behaviour\u2019 towards Emma Raducanu during the Czech\u2019s match against the Brit, a \u2018strange experience.\u2019 Muchova defeated McCartney Kessler 6-3, 1-6, 7-6(5) in the round of 16 at the WTA 1000 event in Dubai, but it was the incident during her opening match against […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}