British tennis player Emma Raducanu says she no longer feels she is “hiding from anything” after being targeted earlier this year by a man who “exhibited fixated behaviour”.

The 2021 US Open champion was distressed and tearful when she saw a man who had followed her to four successive tournaments in the stands during a match in Dubai in February.

The man, who was removed and later given a restraining order by Dubai police, had given Raducanu a letter and asked for a photograph in a coffee shop the previous day.

The Briton says she has “got over” the incident – but does, however, admit to being occasionally unnerved when seeing printed photographs of herself.

“What did creep me out was I saw a photo of myself in London, and I didn’t see the paparazzi [photographers] taking it,” the 23-year-old said.

“I was with my two best friends. I just didn’t see the ‘paps’. That’s obviously creepy, when you’re like: I didn’t see them – how did they take this photo?

“But other than that, I feel good because someone’s always watching my back.”