Emma Raducanu says she would be a 'Slytherin' in the world of Harry Potter because they are so 'brutal'

• Emma Raducanu says she would be a Slytherin if she attended Hogwarts.
• "They have got a, just mysterious sort of side to them, and I like that," she told reporters.

Emma Raducanu may not know who her next permanent tennis coach may be, but she knows for certain which house she would be in if she studied at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

"I'd be in Slytherin, for sure," the British teenage tennis star told reporters after her first-round win at the Citi Open in Washington DC on Tuesday.

Slytherin is one of the four houses at Hogwarts, in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels.

According to the Wizarding World website, the house is "full of shrewd and ambitious characters." It also has a reputation of being the house of many of the most evil wizards and witches in the franchise's lore.

"They haven't got a great [reputation], but I just think they are really cool," Raducanu added. "They're pretty, in a way, brutal, but, I don't know.

"They have got a, just mysterious sort of side to them, and I like that."

Raducanu has been much less decisive in choosing a permanent coach in recent times.

The 19-year-old has parted way with three coaches in the last 13 months and is currently working with Russian coach Dmitry Tursunov.

Though her partnership with Tursunov is only temporary at the moment, if she performs well in DC, the Russian could lead Raducanu into her US Open title defense later this month.