"Will only make the fictional stories blow up even more": Carlos Alcaraz all smiles bumping into Emma Raducanu in Malaga prior to Davis Cup

With the Billie Jean King Cup Finals and Davis Cup Finals sharing a site in Malaga, the top ATP and WTA names who are involved mingle amongst each other and that was the case with Emma Raducanu as well as Carlos Alcaraz.

Raducanu is currently playing against Rebecca Marino in the first singles rubber of the 2024 Billie Jean King Cup Quarter-Finals and is as of time of writing 4-0 up. Leylah Fernandez faces off against Katie Boulter in the second singles match afterwards but it seems that Raducanu is putting the country in the box seat.

She also looked happy as she was throwing an american football with her team with a jovial Carlos Alcaraz watching on. But as a social media user pointed out, it does nothing but add fuel to the fictional stories that circulate online. He was bizarrely asked at Wimbledon after the final about Raducanu attending.

"I don’t know, I don’t know. I think a lot of people came to see the final,' he said. 'I think Novak and I always put on a good game, a show on the court. I think it is a beautiful game to watch.

"And she is from here, so I imagine that she wanted to come and see it. If there was a Grand Slam in Murcia [his home town] I would 100 per cent go to the final, even if I wasn’t playing. I don’t know if she came to the finals or if she came to see me. Who knows? You have to ask her, but I hope she enjoyed the final."

Often in the past social media users in the tennis space have created fake quotes about Alcaraz saying he is in a relationship with Raducanu that often fool others. They have occasionally gone viral and also saw Raducanu barraged with comments about when her and Carlos are going public.

With this image now circulating, social media was very much fearing another situation similar to this. After his ATP Finals ended amid illness and a swift exit in Round Robin, Alcaraz now has more pressure. He faces Netherlands with Spain in the Davis Cup Finals in Rafael Nadal's farewell.