The first time you’re photographed without make-up and a tabloid makes comments about your appearance. The first time a “source” sells a story about you. And as Emma Raducanu is finding out, the first time that your lack of love life becomes so boring to the world media that they simply invent one for you.
Raducanu and Alcaraz have been photographed together recently, it’s true. But for the incredibly saucy reason that they’re both ambassadors for Evian. It’s the most clean-cut thing two people in their early twenties could be doing.
Rumours are sufficiently rife that Raducanu felt it necessary to issue a correction, telling the reporters that the pair are “just good friends”. At which point I throw my hands to the sky and wonder who is in charge of her media training, because everyone – literally everyone – knows that the worst thing you can do if you’re trying to deny a bit of secret snogging is to use the expression “just good friends”. It’s probably completely true, but of course that doesn’t matter.
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Having close friends who are the opposite sex is a genuinely useful thing, especially if you’re dating or in a heterosexual relationship and occasionally require a translator who can explain why men behave in certain ways. Yet the worst prejudice about male/female friendships actually seems to come from my female friends.
My fiancé feels fine about that. I assume that’s because he trusts me, or because he knows that I don’t want to shag anyone who isn’t him, or maybe because I made it clear from the outset that my friendships are sacrosanct and I’m not going to change them because of some outdated societal bias about who is allowed to be friends with whom. Male or female, if your romantic partner starts trying to control who you’re mates with, that’s the reddest of red flags.
And that’s just on the strength of what people I know in real life are saying. If I were an international tennis star then I’d be inclined to give that friendship a very wide berth, just to avoid the endless questions.
And that’s very sad. Being a tennis champion has already taken out large chunks of Raducanu’s childhood, teens, education and life in general. It would be a real shame if the media attention, a by-product of her talent and her career in tennis, were to take yet another thing away from her: the genuine, and entirely innocent, joy of a male-female friendship.
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