From tennis now | @Tennisnow | Tuesday, June 24, 2025
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Before they were great champions collided, Carlos Alcaraz AND Ema Raducanu They were friends.
Open Open’s 2022 Alcaraz’s Open will partnership 2021 Holder open title of US Raducanu in a double event mixed with Open Open stars in August.
This partnership – and Raducanu’s appearance to see the Alcaraz Playen’s Club last week – is making some media and fans speculating its fate, two new superstars will develop a romantic relationship.
Asked about their friendship, Raducanu said BBC “We go back a long way.”
“Of course I would say yes.”Emma Raducanu explains how Carlos Alcaraz asked her to be his partner in open doubles in the US Pic.twitter.com/GVHz8i6xt0
– BBC Sport (@bbcsport) June 23 2025
“We go back a long way and I think we both started getting to know each other in 2021,” Raducanu said BBC Sport. “We were like talking and friends before someone won anything.”
The Pairift will play for a $ 1 million sample check at the newly rebuilt US Open Mixed Double event, which contains the deepest draw in the Flushing Meadows mixed doubles.
Asked if it’s fate the pair will be together, a smiling Raducan laughed at the question.
“I’m glad the internet is having fun and we’re offering some fun for everyone,” Raducanu replied.
