EMMA Raducanu used to practise tennis every weekend with her dad in a car park at the back of their flat.
She was just five years old when she picked up a racket and played with her father Ian using a makeshift net.
Margaret Panayiotou, 83, who Emma called Mrs P, lived next door to her for nine years in Bromley, South East London, and remembers how determined she was even at such a young age.
Retired B&B owner Margaret, now Emma’s biggest fan, told SE: “Every single weekend she was out there.
“She was only young, bless her.
“She was already a whizz, she really was good.
“She was so determined for such a young child.”
During lockdown this year, Emma practised against the garages on the Bromley cul-de-sac where she now lives with her dad and her mum Renee.
