Game, set, match, fellas.
Maria Sharapova, a three-time Grand Slam tennis champ, is engaged to Los Angeles Lakers guard Sasha Vujacic.
The 26-year-old hoops star made the announcement just before his Lakers took on the Golden State Warriors in an exhibition game on Thursday night in San Diego, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Vujacic said he popped the big question to Sharapova, a 23-year-old Russian, at his Manhattan Beach, California home on the one-year anniversary of the duo’s first meeting at a friend’s barbeque.
Vujacic said Sharapova said “yes” to his “old-school” proposal.
“I had to do it like a gentlemen…We are both really happy,” he told the paper.
A wedding date has not been set.
The couple was first spotted holding hands about a year ago, according to TMZ. The gossip site called the bride-to-be’s diamond ring “ginormous.”
Sharapova isn’t the first female tennis star to play doubles with a baller. WTA player Kim Clijsters married former professional basketball player Brian Lynch in 2007.
With News Wire Services
