The chief executive of the WTA said that Emma Raducanu's experience with a stalker at the Dubai Championships is not being considered a security failure.

Emma Raducanu admits she didn't think at all about the Dubai stalking incident in Indian Wells and said her early loss happened because she wasn't prepared well but also the very tricky conditions. On Thursday, the 55th-ranked Briton saw her campaign in the desert come to an end in the first round after Moyuka Uchijima handed her a 6-3 6-2 defeat.

Uchijima was a dominant 6-3 6-2 winner over the former US Open champion to set up a meeting with world number three Coco Gauff

Emma Raducanu returned to the tennis court on Thursday for the first time since a stalker disrupted her second-round match in Dubai last month.

I was 17 and a promising middle-distance runner for Great Britain when my world was turned upside down by a stalker. So Emma Raducanu’s distressing stalking episode at last month’s Dubai Open immediately resonated with me.

Often the ‘stalker’ doesn’t even realise the other person doesn't feel the same way they do, let alone see how they are coming across