TOURNAMENT chiefs were hunting for the "fixated" man who scared Emma Raducanu but he managed to evade security and sneak into her match.
Raducanu spotted the man in the crowd sitting in the first set of rows after losing the first two games of the match.
"This same individual was identified in the first few rows during Emma’s match on Tuesday at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships and subsequently ejected.
Desperate efforts were then made before Raducanu's match against Karolina Muchova to find out who the man was.
It read: "On Monday, February 17, Emma Raducanu was approached in a public area by a man who exhibited fixated behaviour.