Only last week, Emma Raducanu was bemoaning the incessant speculation about her private life.

“I guess it comes with the territory, people being so curious,” Raducanu told The Guardian , adding that it was “terrible” watching Cam Norrie get asked at Wimbledon if he was involved with her romantically.

Quite apart from anything else, Norrie has a long-term girlfriend who watches most of his matches from the players’ box. Carlos Alcaraz has no such regular partner, making gossip about his involvement with Raducanu harder to slap down.

She says they are just “good friends” who became famous around the same time, an assertion confident enough for most people to accept.

But the salacious chatter will reignite this week – because Raducanu and Alcaraz will walk out onto court together .

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