You may have seen the clip by now. British No 3 Cam Norrie was fielding questions after his third-round win at Wimbledon, and one journalist said this: “Apart from everyone here loving tennis, some of the gossip has been about who Emma Raducanu is dating. Can I ask if you’re dating her? Can we get to the bottom of this please?”
I sunk in my chair. No, Cam, I thought, you heard absolutely right.
I cringed alongside the rest of the tennis press pack in the media theatre. “I’m not, no,” Norrie replied, deadpan. “You can ask her though.”
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When did it become acceptable for a journalist to pick any random male tennis player and, apropos of absolutely nothing, ask him whether he is dating another female player?
A quick Google search (or a glance up at Norrie’s player box on No 1 Court earlier that afternoon), would have revealed to the journalist that he, in fact, has a long-term girlfriend. Not that it matters.
This journalist was not the first person to bring Raducanu’s rumoured love life into the press room, though he was the first to ask a random player about it. The Raducanu-Alcaraz saga has been pored over in the build-up to Wimbledon, and the coverage has made my toes curl.
A warm Centre Court applause for Emma Raducanu after playing her part in a brilliant match #Wimbledon pic.twitter.com/RyuPF7tf7v
— Wimbledon (@Wimbledon) July 4, 2025It is all so tiresome, though unfortunately not surprising. The dating lives of sportswomen have historically been a hot topic in the press. My mistake was thinking we might have moved past this.
There are countless more interesting things to talk about and write about than who Raducanu may or may not be romantically involved in. Every one of the 15,000 punters lucky enough to have Centre Court tickets on Friday night could tell you that, after living through every point of an epic battle between her and the world No 1 Aryna Sabalenka. The millions who were glued to their screens watching at home would tell you similar.
www.instagram.com/p/DLnxwnSNIQO/?img_index=4Spare a thought too for Norrie being dragged into this. Over the years, Raducanu’s fellow British players have become accustomed to fielding questions about her.
The premise of the question was that he might want to chip in some lurid gossip, as if he was in on some inside joke. It was a pathetic question at best and creepy at worst. If the journalist felt emboldened by the 80-20 male-female split in the room, the joke was on him, as every other man I spoke to who walked out of the media conference absolutely balked at his question.
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When it was recently announced that she was paired with reigning Wimbledon champion Alcaraz for the mixed doubles event at the upcoming US Open, the rumour mill went into overdrive. Raducanu flatly told the media she and Alcaraz are just friends. She has played along nicely, patiently answered questions on the topic and smiled through the suggestions about some supposed burgeoning romance. All credit to her, because she was well within her rights to tell everyone to bore off. But still, even that congenial effort is not enough for a small minority in the media.
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The irony was that, while Norrie was forced to field this question, Raducanu was about to walk out live on BBC One, at the same time as live women’s sport was being broadcast across ITV 1 (the Women’s Euros) and Sky Sports Main Event (women’s cricket) too. It was a sign that the world has clearly moved on with women at the forefront of sporting coverage more and more. I only wish everyone would wake up to that too.
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