Raducanu's grandmother Niculina, 88, reveals the heartfelt advice she gave the tennis star

Watching her granddaughter slump forward in her courtside chair at Wimbledon this summer, evidently distressed and struggling to breathe, Niculina Raducanu was filled with trepidation. 'I asked her parents if she should quit tennis,' Niculina revealed after we tracked her down to her home in the Romanian capital this week, soon after Emma's historic U.S. Open triumph. Emma Raducanu receives medical treatment during her fourth round match Wimbledon Tennis Championships Hitherto, the widowed Niculina had viewed Emma's televised matches alone in her little flat, but she told us: 'The night she won the U.S. Open, I couldn't watch because my heart couldn't take it. Emma Raducanu poses happily with her father Ian outside their family home in South London Moreover, her success undoubtedly owes much to her English grammar school education and Britain's now well-funded tennis development system. British tennis star Emma Raducanu is interviewed on Good Morning Britain on ABC following her US Open victory Given Emma's age, it seems that Dongmei — or Renee — left Shenyang, an industrial and trading hub lying 428 miles north-east of Beijing, and an hour by train from the North Korean border, some time in the 1990s.