However, they weren't able to travel to the US to attend the tournament because of Covid rules. Romanian Ian and Renee, who is Chinese, were living in Toronto, Canada, when only child Emma was born, and the family moved to the UK when she was two.īoth work in finance and home is in a cul-de-sac in Bromley, south-east London, where Emma and her father would hit tennis balls together in the street during the Covid lockdowns. Raducanu's parents Ian and Renee Raducanu have been hugely influential in their daughter's remarkable journey. My dad's definitely very tough to please but I managed to today.' 'My dad said to me 'you're even better than your dad thought' so that was reassuring. She told reporters: 'I speak to my parents, we don't really talk so much about tennis but they just really want to know how I am in these moments and, you know, to not have them here with me, I would have loved them to be here and we can all celebrate together or they could be with me and experience the same things but you know, they're watching from home very proud. Raducanu also said her 'tough to please' father told her 'you're even better than I thought' after becoming the first Briton to win a major since Virginia Wade at Wimbledon in 1977 and the first qualifier to triumph in a Grand Slam, in either the men's or women's game. The 18-year-old from Kent, who became Britain's first female Grand Slam champion in 44 years after beating Canadian rival Lelyah Fernandez in straight sets at Flushing Meadows, revealed she doesn't talk much about tennis with her parents. British tennis superstar Emma Raducanu has admitted that she wished her parents were in New York to watch her win the astonishing US Open final on Saturday after draconian Covid rules kept them in Britain in a candid post-match press conference.