Questions about Emma Raducanu’s boyfriend are disgusting and sexist ...Middle East

WIMBLEDON — Imagine being allowed to sit in a room and ask elite athletes any question you like. Now, imagine using that privilege to ask something inane and blatantly sexist.

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?”

“Sorry?” Norrie asked, as baffled as the rest of us.

I sunk in my chair. No, Cam, I thought, you heard absolutely right.

The journalist in question ploughed on, brazenly clarifying: “I’m trying to find out who’s dating Emma Raducanu. It seems to be going around all the men’s singles. I was wondering if you’re dating her, please?”

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.”

As the media conference awkwardly moved on, all I could think was: have we genuinely lost the plot? I have heard some awful questions in my time covering sport, but that just about tops them all.

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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?

Spoiler: it isn’t, and never should have been, acceptable. The question was bad enough, and then the follow-up so disgustingly worded that it suggested the journalist had a list of names and was crossing them out one by one.

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 was lazy journalism, for sure. But more than that it was plainly misogynistic. A shameless, desperate attempt to try to resurrect a dead story, and doing so at the expense of a 22-year-old woman. Surely, we have had enough of this already?

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

Dozens of news stories and features have been written up, full of cliches and love heart graphics trying to make the Raducanu-Alcaraz romance a thing. I have repeatedly wondered whether I have been transported back in time to an age when the most interesting thing about a sportswoman can only be who they’re rumoured to be going out with. But apparently 2025 is the new 1995.

It 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.

But still, some want to greedily unpick the layers of her private life instead.

Spare 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.

And that is fair enough, considering she remains the most high profile active tennis player in this country, due to her outrageous triumph in New York nearly four years ago. This latest line of questioning though has crossed a boundary. Norrie’s disdainful tone was evidence of that.

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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If Raducanu and Alcaraz are just friends, they’ve committed the ultimate error

I’m not naive. I understand the appeal of a sporting power couple, so I get why Alcaraz and Raducanu becoming an item would be objectively interesting. On these very courts, we had Chris Evert and Jimmy Connors both win Wimbledon when they were a couple. This week American football star Trinity Rodman has been in the stands supporting her boyfriend, tennis player Ben Shelton, as have engaged couple Alex de Minaur and Katie Boulter. But these are players who have publicly spoken about their private lives. Raducanu has not.

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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I’ve been in this industry long enough to have heard many poorly worded questions and some downright sexist ones. I’ve heard women inadvertently airbrushed out of statistics. I’ve heard major champion Iga Swiatek asked why she does not wear as much make-up on court as other players. I know that biases remain ingrained in many facets of sports journalism. This was another reminder that, as a top, young sportswoman, competing well will never be enough of a story for some.

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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