Emma Raducanu, a 19-year-old world tennis star, has been through real hell in recent weeks. She was indeed harassed by a married man, who fell under her spell, who managed to find her home. The man was finally arrested.

It was a chilling time for young Emma Raducanu. Aged 19, the Englishwoman has emerged as a great promise in world tennis and has caught the eye of many fans, who see her as a potential future champion. But one man took things far too seriously.

This 35-year-old married man fell in love with Raducanu during lockdown, watching his matches on TV. Unemployed, he will then conduct an investigation to find where the young woman lives. He will achieve this and start paying surprise visits to the player, who did not know him. A former delivery man, he used this pretext to drop off gifts at the home of the Englishwoman, who lives with her parents.

For example, he offered a bouquet of flowers in November. This bouquet contained a small note including the name of the wife of his admirer, but also of his dog and a strange reference. "Nothing else to say, you deserve love," the suspect wrote. The parents then reprimanded him, asking not to come to the site again in the future. What he will still do again.

In December, the man left a red envelope in the mailbox, with a map inside showing the route taken by the suspect. "I did 37 km for you," this person wrote. He then decorated a tree in the front of the house for Christmas and grabbed a shoe from the entrance, thinking it was Raducanu's shoe. It was finally the dad who spotted him through a security camera, before chasing him to the bus stop and calling the police.

The man was arrested and justified his theft by the desire to have a souvenir of his adventure. If he has apologized, he is now prohibited from contacting the player and her entourage and from going to their street. He will now be judged. The Englishwoman wants to move, no longer feeling safe after such misadventures.