Has Emma Raducanu 設立する a love match with dashing fellow-teenage prodigy she has known since she was six?

Tennis fans wondering how Emma Raducanu 炎d 支援する to British No 1 最高位の at Queen's this week should take a look at her support team.

Roaring her on as she reached the 4半期/4分の1-決勝戦 was not just her coach Nick Cavaday and スパイ/執行官 Thomas Houchin, but a dashing former tennis prodigy の近くに to her heart, Benjamin Heynold.

He and Raducanu, 22, have known each other since the age of six and have 代表するd Team GB together.?

Heynold, 24, is a student at the the University of North Carolina in the US and friends 示唆する that his long friendship with Emma may have turned to romance.

Raducanu 分裂(する) up with her Harrow-educated boyfriend, Carlo Agostinelli, last year.

Roaring Emma Raducanu on as she reached the quarter-finals was a dashing former tennis protege close to her heart, Benjamin Heynold

Roaring Emma Raducanu on as she reached the 4半期/4分の1-決勝戦 was a dash ing former tennis 被保護者 の近くに to her heart, Benjamin Heynold

Heynold, 24, (pictured right) is a student at the the University of North Carolina in the US and friends suggest that his long friendship with Emma may have turned to romance

Heynold, 24, (pictured 権利) is a student at the the University of North Carolina in the US and friends 示唆する that his long friendship with Emma may have turned to romance

He and Raducanu, 22, have known each other since the age of six and have represented Team GB together. Pictured: Raducanu and Heynold in 2016

He and Raducanu, 22, have known each other since the age of six and have 代表するd Team GB together. Pictured: Raducanu and Heynold in 2016

Agostinelli, a former 長,率いる boy of pricey 私的な school Harrow, is the son of 大君 Robert Agostinelli, the co-創立者 and chairman of 私的な 公正,普通株主権 会社/堅い Rhone Group.

The tennis 星/主役にする's year-long whirlwind romance with him was said to have been her most serious 関係 yet.

She 以前 明らかにする/漏らすd that she wasn't 許すd to date while growing up in Bromley, South East London, which made her resent her strict her parents, イオン and Renee Raducanu.

'My parents were ve ry much against [boyfriends] as it 干渉するd with training,' she told The Times.

'When I was younger I wasn't even 許すd to hang out with my girl friends.

'A lot of the time I was very resentful.

'But it made me very 確信して and comfortable in my own company, which is also a big strength.'

Having changed coaches seven times in the space of four years as she tried to 再度捕まえる the form that saw her 勝利,勝つ a Grand 激突する at the 2021 US Open, perhaps Benjamin is her エース?

Emma Raducanu with former boyfriend Carlo Agostinelli? during the 2024 Paris Fashion week

Emma Raducanu with former boyfriend Carlo Agostinelli? during the 2024 Paris Fashion week?

Heynold watched on as?Raducanu 屈服するd out in the Queen's 4半期/4分の1-決勝戦 with a 6-2 6-4 loss to Chinese first-seed Qinwen Zheng.

Raducanu, who 公式に 取って代わるs Katie Boulter as British number one on Monday, planned for next week's Berlin Open to be the next step on her 追求(する),探索(する) to 安全な・保証する seeding at Wimbledon, but 要求するd an off-法廷,裁判所 医療の time out before the second 始める,決める 関心ing her 現在進行中の 支援する 問題/発行するs.

The 22-year-old was the last Briton standing in this new WTA 500 event, the first time women's tennis had been played at Queen's since 1973.

'I'm not 極端に 関心d that it's something serious, but I know it's something that's very annoying and needs proper and careful 管理/経営,' said Raducanu, who 明らかにする/漏らすd she had been taped up for 安定 and took some painkillers.

Quizzed about whether she was a fitness 疑問 for Wimbledon, she replied: '井戸/弁護士席, I don't know. Like it's been ぐずぐず残る for the last few weeks, and I have had, like, 支援する 問題/発行するs before. I think it's just a vulnerability of 地雷. I know I need to take good care of it.'

The new British number one 確認するd coach 示す Petchey will be able to join her should the Berlin 計画(する) go ahead, but does not know if former coach Nick Cavaday, who stepped 支援する in January 予定 to ill health, will also be on the trip after joining her in London this week.

Raducanu 譲歩するd that making the seeding 削減(する) for Wimbledon '明白に helps' when it comes to swerving difficult draws in the ea rly 一連の会議、交渉/完成するs, but 追加するd: 'I think maybe my goals have わずかに 転換d from 存在 seeded to 現実に 改善するing my game.

'When I play those 最高の,を越す players, making it closer and feeling more 競争の激しい rather than just feeling, '承認する, I maybe get to the third 一連の会議、交渉/完成する of a 激突する but then lose comfortably to one of the 最高の,を越す'.

'I think I'd rather have a more 競争の激しい match, even if that means losing first 一連の会議、交渉/完成する, second 一連の会議、交渉/完成する. I think that, to be honest, is how I feel 権利 now.'

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