Emma Raducanu admitted in an interview with the Evening Standard that she had to change phone numbers several times since becoming the US Open champion.
Raducanu saw herself become an overnight sensation after becoming the first qualifier to win a grand slam. She did it at last year's US Open and ever since then, her popularity has kept rising with several problems popping up along the way.
She explained:
“I’ve changed my number a few times. It’s the [WhatsApp] group chats as well. You get added to a group chat, and it’s, ‘Oh, no’."
Raducanu values her privacy and generally doesn't like to put herself out there too much and it's just one of her personality traits. Besides loving alone time, she is also a bit of a perfectionist:
"I’d say I am too much of a perfectionist. That drives me crazy some
- times. Like I obviously think it’s a great trait because I don’t
think I would have had the results I did without that drive and that
wanting to be better. But it can be really self-destructive at
the same time because you’re never happy and you’ll always complain or
find something wrong.
She continued:
"But I also think another part of my personality is that I very much like to be alone sometimes. Socially, I love hanging out with people. But then equally, I love my own space. I have a few friends on the tour, but it’s tough because you don’t have much [free] time, and it’s also competitive out there, so it’s not like everyone wants to be friends with you. But I have a few. Priscilla Hon, Risa Ozaki, and a couple of doubles players who are really nice.”
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