As a child, she attained essential funding for her dream only when her school teacher told her family that her classmate was the son of a director of Nissan Romania, which sometimes sponsored talented kids. That, together with the support of the family, makes us really quite strong inside.”ĭulgheru reached a career high of 26 in 2011 and her pathway is a reflection of that random luck involved in success for Romanian players. We have that fighting spirit, that really is a trend for Romania. We grow with a lot of variation in our game. Having been frequently asked to explain how all of this has happened, Dulgheru has come to see numerous factors, from the competition between players to a vast amount of talent in Romania. Not even Simona Halep, a former junior No 1, can relate to that. It is a thoughtful gesture, one that took the LTA by surprise, but also a reminder of the privilege of developing as a player in a grand-slam nation with the support of a rich federation. On Thursday, after reaching the quarter-final, Raducanu said her US Open trophy will be put on display at the LTA National Tennis Centre. The moment she won, everybody got the vibe back again the Cluj vibe. “It was a very nice moment for the tournament because after all those shocks with no crowd, they were a bit sad. Toca, who also works on the Transylvania Open digital team, says her comments went down extremely well. “I was thinking: ‘I don’t want to leave here,’” she said. In her interview with Dulgheru, she cited her treatment in Cluj as a source of motivation. On Tuesday, Raducanu recovered from the brink of defeat in the first round against the Slovenian Polona Hercog. He would like her to be here for future editions. “He loves the country and he loves the fact she’s here. He’s very well connected with Romania,” he says. “I also had the chance to talk a lot with her father for the past few days. admire her even more and they embrace her like one of their own, treating her like part of the family.”Īs Dulgheru described Raducanu as shy and modest, the Transylvania Open tournament director, Patrick Ciorcila, expressed satisfaction at her presence. “She’s trying to give interviews in Romanian, which helps. “We talk to her in Romanian in the locker room and we’re talking about this and she understands almost everything,” says Alexandra Dulgheru, a player who has been conducting on-court interviews in Cluj during an injury layoff. In Raducanu’s case, she now has players from Great Britain, Romania and China looking out for her.Įmma Raducanu serves during her first-round match against Slovenia’s Polona Hercog at the Transylvania Open in Cluj. When young players attain enormous success and celebrity, the locker room can be a lonely and sometimes even hostile place. That so many older players have been willing to put an arm around Raducanu is particularly valuable given her inexperience on the tour. She is speaking really good Romanian but she’s so shy to do it.” “We started to be friends, she’s a nice person. “She was really funny and she told me: ‘I’m sorry Gabi, I can’t play doubles.’ “Unfortunately we didn’t get it, so I asked Emma if she wants to play doubles with me,” Ruse says. Three years later, in Nottingham, Ruse and her partner, Monica Niculescu, another of Raducanu’s new Romanian friends, had missed out on a Wimbledon doubles wildcard. Another Romanian player alerted her to the presence of an unknown British girl with a Romanian name, so she went to watch. During her time in Cluj, where she reached her first WTA tour quarter-final before a 6-2, 6-1 defeat by Marta Kostyuk, Raducanu has been welcomed by all, and it was notable how the Romanian players beckoned her into their group.Įlena-Gabriela Ruse, who trained with Raducanu on consecutive days before the tournament and went out to dinner with her team, says Raducanu first came on to their radar during the 2018 Wimbledon qualifying tournament. The past week has been a thorough victory for the latter view.
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