Models and artists, TV presenters and actresses, tennis players and housewives. the site talks about the girls with whom men's tennis stars have connected their lives.
Mirka Federer
18-time Grand Slam singles champion Roger Federer met his future wife Miroslava Vavrinec at the Sydney Olympics in 2000. Vavrinec, also a tennis player from Switzerland, made it there thanks to the invitation of the organizers, since according to the rating she did not qualify for the competition.
Federer and Vavrinec soon began dating before Mirka retired in 2002 due to a leg injury. played several matches in mixed doubles at the Hopman Cup.
In 2009, Roger and Mirka formalized their relationship. The couple has seven-year-old twin daughters Myla Rose and Charlene Riva, and three-year-old twin sons Leo and Lennart. Roger Federer comes to almost all competitions with his family.
Steffi Graf
Before his marriage to German tennis star Steffi Graf, American tennis player Andre Agassi dated singer Barbra Streisand and was married to actress Brooke Shields. In 1999, when Steffi and Andre won Roland Garros in singles, the tennis players suddenly became close. Two years later, the couple had a wedding in Las Vegas, which was attended only by the mothers of the players.
The first-born in the family of Steffi and Andre was born in 2001. The boy was named Jayden Gill. Two years later, Steffi gave birth to a girl named Jazz Ellie.
Both Steffi Graf (since 2004) and Andre Agassi (since 2011) are members of the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
Brooklyn Decker
In the 2007 season, former world number one Andy Roddick helped the US team win the Davis Cup. That same year, he began dating model and actress Brooklyn Decker, and two years later he married her. In her heyday, Esquire magazine named Brooklyn the highest paid model in the world. In 2015, she gave birth to Andy's son, Hank.
By the way, there is a funny story connected with Decker’s pregnancy. People magazine mistakenly reported that Brooklyn is expecting a child with Andy Murray (!). "I don't think my wife and Andy Roddick will be happy to hear about this."- the British tennis player joked on social networks.
Kim Sears
The daughter of tennis coach Nigel Sears and artist Kim Sears and Andy Murray have known each other since childhood. They started dating in their teenage years and kissed in public for the first time in 2006 in San Jose, when Andy won the first ATP tournament of his career. Afterwards they took breaks in the relationship, and in 2015 in the 12th century cathedral in the small town of Dunblane, the athlete’s hometown. The celebrations were dubbed "Scottish version of a royal wedding."
In February 2016, there was an addition to the Murray family: a daughter, Charlotte Olivia, was born.
Sarah Foster
The daughter of Canadian producer David Foster and model Rebecca, actress and ex-girlfriend of Leonardo DiCaprio, Sarah Foster married German tennis player Tommy Haas in 2010. The couple has daughters Valentina Evelyn and Josephine Lina.
Sarah’s track record includes leading roles in the films “Alias” and “Big Theft,” and the TV series “90210: The Next Generation” and “Barely Famous.”
Donna Vekic
After ten years of marriage, Stanislas Wawrinka and TV presenter Ilham Vuyu finally broke up in 2015. Ilham explained the break in the relationship by the Swiss tennis player’s “psychological instability,” lies and betrayal, and also did not agree that the decline in Stan’s career was associated with family problems. She called this way of putting the question excuses.
Stan and Ilham are raising their daughter Alexia.
Stan Wawrinka's new girlfriend is the young Croatian tennis player Donna Vekic. Donna's father Igor was a football goalkeeper, and her mother Brankica was an athlete. Donna is the third racket of Croatia and is ranked 70th in the Women's Tennis Association rankings.
Esther Satorova
In 2011, Czech Tomas Berdych broke up with tennis player Lucie Safarova, whom he dated for nine years. Berdych proposed marriage to his next girlfriend, top model Esther Satorova, three years after they met.
The couple, who previously starred in a candid photo shoot for ELLE magazine, got married in the summer of 2015 in Monaco.
Maria Francisca Perella
Maria Francisca Perella and Rafael Nadal have known each other since they went to school, and became close after Maria's sister introduced her to Rafael in 2005. Over the next five years, the Spanish tennis player insisted that he was single, although this was not the case. As the player's coach and his uncle Tony said, "It was a well-kept secret."
Maria rarely attends tennis tournaments, because she does not want to complicate Rafa’s life with her presence, and is focused on her own career. When she gets out to compete, she can be seen in the company of the player’s mother, Anna Maria.
Elena Djokovic
Like Nadal, Novak Djokovic met his future partner Jelena Ristic at school, and began dating her in 2005. At that time Elena was studying in Milan and working part-time in a bookmaker's office. They agreed with Novak that successfully passing the exams is equivalent to winning the Grand Slam tournaments.
After winning the Wimbledon tournament in 2014, Novak and Elena got married, and three months later their son Stefan was born.
Jelena runs the Novak Djokovic Charitable Foundation, which is involved in the development of school and preschool education, as well as children's sports in Serbia.
Ksenia Mirnaya
Ksenia, who worked as a model at the Tamara agency and a teacher at the Suvorov School, met Olympic champion Maxim Mirny at the birthday party of the father of the Belarusian tennis player Nikolai Nikolaevich. Max initially suggested that he be friends with his future wife, and in 2008 the couple organized magnificent wedding celebrations in Minsk. Alexander Solodukha, Irina Dorofeeva, Pete Pavlov, Alesya Yarmolenko, Larisa Gribaleva, Maxim himself and Ksenia, who has since been a housewife, sang at the Mirnykh party.
The Mirnykh family lives in two countries - Belarus and the United States - and raises four children: daughters Melania and Petra, sons Demid and Trofim.
Swiss tennis player Stan Wawrinka has achieved great success over the past 4 years. He won his first Grand Slam title at the 2014 Australian Open. Thanks to this, the athlete became the third racket in the world. His rivals were, and. He beat two of them to win the most important titles of his career.
Junior achievements
Stanislas Wawrinka was born in Switzerland in 1985. His father Wolfram is a farmer and social worker, German of Czech origin. Isabel's mother worked as a teacher. She subsequently became involved in biodynamic agriculture and managed the Ferme du Château, which helps people with mental and physical disabilities.
The second of four tennis-playing siblings, Stan began playing the sport at age 8. His coach was Dmitry Zavyalov, a Frenchman of Russian origin. By the age of 14, Wawrinka was already participating in international junior competitions. He dropped out of school and continued his education remotely in order to devote himself full-time to tennis. In 2003, the athlete's efforts paid off when he became the French junior champion and took 7th place in the world rankings.
The first important title in his professional career for the tennis player was the ATP tournament in Croatia in 2006. He finished that year ranked in the top 40 and continued his rise by reaching the fourth round at the US Open. In 2008, Stan Wawrinka teamed up with Swiss star Roger Federer to win the doubles gold medal at the Beijing Olympics.
Significant victories of Stanislas Wawrinka
Stan met the best tennis players on the court. He was not always able to overcome them, but the athlete confidently moved forward. In 2009 in Monte Carlo he defeated Roger Federer. A year later, Wawrinka reached the final of the Chennai Open, but lost to Croatian Marin Cilic. After a disappointing season in which he lost in the first round of Wimbledon, Stanislas parted ways with his coach and hired Peter Lundgren, the former coach of Marat Safin and Federer. The partnership bore fruit at the US Open, where the Swiss reached the quarter-finals, beating Andy Murray.
The following years became training years for the tennis player. He honed his skills. Journalists called Stanislas clumsy, but he was able to improve his game. In 2014, the first significant victory took place.
At the Australian Open, Wawrinka defeated Andrey Golubev, Alejandro Falla, Vasek Pospisil and Tommy Robredo. The opponent in the quarterfinals was Novak Djokovic, whom Stan beat in five sets. He then faced another semi-finalist, Tomas Berdych, and defeated Rafael Nadal in the final. In the same 2014, the athlete won the Davis Cup as part of the Swiss national team. He decided to shorten his name and appeared in the standings no longer as Stanislas Wawrinka, but simply Stan.
Wawrinka opened 2015 by reaching the semi-finals of the Australian Open before being defeated by Djokovic. He was unable to successfully defend his title in Monte Carlo, but became a major figure at the French Open a few weeks later. Stan scored a decisive victory over Federer in the quarter-finals and then defeated his old enemy Djokovic to win his second Grand Slam title.
The third victory took place a year later at the US Open. There he again beat Novak Djokovic, adding another trophy to the list. The tennis player received all his titles in the Yonex uniform. The Japanese brand, known for the production of equipment for tennis, golf and badminton, still cooperates with the athlete.
Personal life of Stan Wawrinka
In 2009, Stanislas married Ilham, a Swiss TV presenter and former fashion model. In marriage, the couple had a daughter, Alexia. After 6 years, the couple filed for divorce. Wawrinka is currently dating tennis player Donna Vekic.
Stan Wawrinka is still playing. He returned to action at the 2018 Australian Open, where he lost to Tennys Sandgren in the second round. After missing almost three months due to injury, Wawrinka qualified for the Italian and French Opens. However, even here he failed to advance beyond the first rounds. At the Sofia Open, the athlete reached the semi-finals. There may still be a chance to return to the leaderboard.
Swiss tennis player Stan Wawrinka, who still performs on world courts, is the owner of such awards and titles as the winner of the Grand Slam tournament in singles, winner of 11 ATP version tournaments, winner of the Davis Cup as part of the Swiss national team, former third racket of the world among single.
Stan Wawrinka: First steps in tennis
Stanislas "Stan" Wawrinka, a native of Lausanne, Switzerland, began playing on the tennis court at the age of six. Like many other children who ended up in the sports section, tennis was at first just an active game for little Stanislas. However, very quickly the game on the court captivated the boy, and his abilities clearly manifested themselves. When Stanislas was fifteen years old, sports captured him so much that he switched to distance learning at school in order to devote as much time as possible to training.
Tennis player performances on world courts
Already at fourteen, Stan Wawrinka began performing as a junior, and showed impressive success - he won Roland Garros 2003 among juniors in singles and took seventh place in the youth world ranking of the strongest tennis players.
The adult career of the young Swiss athlete starts in 2002. Performances on the ATP tour in 2003, which did not start well, brought two victories in the Challengers by the end of the year, and in 2004, already as a member of the Swiss national team, Wawrinka participated in the fight for the Davis Cup.
Stan Wawrinka's first appearance at a Grand Slam tournament took place at Roland Garros in 2005, when the tennis player was able to hold out until the third round. In the same year, he reached the first round at Wimbledon and the third at the US Open. The results of the season brought Wawrinka 54th place in the world rankings.
In 2006, thanks to victories and successful participation in major championships, the athlete rises to 30th place in the global standings; in 2007, Stan Wawrinka finds himself in 36th position. The 2008 Summer Olympics, as well as other achievements on world courts, lead to a real breakthrough - the Swiss tennis player reached 13th place in the world standings.
Athlete's career in recent years
In 2009 and 2010, Wawrinka consistently held 21st place in the ranking of the strongest tennis players on the planet. This was facilitated by the semi-final of the Masters series tournament in Monte Carlo, the third round at Roland Garros, the victorious ATP series tournament in Casablanca and victories over many famous athletes.
2011 and 2012 raise Stan Wawrinka to 17th position, where he finishes both seasons. In 2013, there was progress in the results of the competition - an excellent game at the Australian Open, a victory at Oieras, where he beat David Ferrera, the final of the Masters series competition in Spanish Madrid and the semi-final of the final competition provide Wawrinka with 8th place in the world ranking.
In 2014, he was able to break into the TOP 3 in the ATP rankings thanks to a series of victories at iconic tournaments and a resounding victory at the Australian Open. At the end of 2014, Stan Wawrinka became the fourth racket of the world in singles.
Stanislas Wawrinka was born on March 28, 1985 in Lausanne. His father is German, his mother is Swiss, but at the same time, Wawrinka, as you can easily guess from his last name, has Polish and Czech roots. Stanislas began playing tennis at the age of six, and his professional career began in 2002. Just a year later he won the junior Roland Garros.In 2005, Stanislas Wawrinka made it to the finals of an ATP tournament for the first time. In Gstaad he lost in the decisive match to the Argentinean Gaston Gaudio. Wawrinka's first victory came in 2006, when he managed to win the tournament in Umag. On the way to the final, Wawrinka defeated Martin, Cilic, del Potro and Wolandry, and met Djokovic in the final. In the first set, with the score 6-6, Djokovic refused to continue the fight due to injury, giving the victory to Wawrinka.
True, Wawrinka had to wait four long years for his next success. After five defeats in the finals of various tournaments (twice to Djokovic), Stanislas still managed to win the tournament in Casablanca, defeating Victor Hanescu. And in 2011, at the Indian tournament in Chennai, Wawrinka won his first tournament on hard court, defeating the Swiss Xavier Malisse. Before this, Wawrinka had only won on clay.
2014 was a historic year for Wawrinka - Stanislas won his first Grand Slam tournament. The Swiss conquered the Australian Open, where in the final he sensationally beat Rafael Nadal, to whom he had previously lost in thirteen head-to-head matches. And during the tournament, Wawrinka managed to defeat such strong tennis players as Novak Djokovic and Tomas Berdych. A little later, Wawrinka won the prestigious tournament in Monte Carlo, defeating his compatriot Roger Federer in the final. These successes allowed Stanislas to enter the TOP 3 of the ATP rankings, ahead of the legendary Federer for the first time in history.
Wawrinka, despite his status, lives in the small village of Saint-Barthelemy in the suburbs of Lausanne. In 2009, he married Swiss TV presenter Ilham Vuyu. Stanislas and Ilham have a daughter. In 2012, Wawrinka carried the Swiss flag at the London Olympics, taking the banner from Roger Federer, who led the Swiss into the Olympic stadiums in 2004 and 2008. In Beijing, Federer and Wawrinka won gold in doubles at the Beijing Olympics.
Awards
Olympic champion in doubles: 2008Australian Open winner: 2014
9 tournaments won (as of July 2014).
Stanislas Wawrinka was born on March 28, 1985 in Switzerland, in the city of Lausanne. The mother of the future tennis player is from Switzerland, the father is from Germany. Stanislas is the second child in the family. He has two sisters and a brother. Loves cinema and music. In his free time he likes to spend time go-karting.
The boy started playing tennis at the age of six. At the very beginning it was just a game, but soon the boy began to show great promise. At the age of fifteen, Wawrinka decided to devote all his attention to sports, so he had to skip classes at school. But Stanislas Wawrinka did not abandon his studies completely, but continued his studies remotely.
The first games took place when the boy was fourteen years old. Stanislas Wawrinka entered the sport in 2002. In 2003, he made his debut in ATP Tour competition not entirely successfully. Twenty-four days later the next game took place, where he advanced to the second round.
In 2008, the athlete took ninth place in the world standings. That same year he was able to perform well at the Summer Olympics. In 2010, competitions were held in Casablanca and Chennai. In 2011, a doubles tournament took place. Where the two strongest tennis players Stanislas Wawrinka and Roger defeated their opponents.
One of the most beautiful tournaments took place in 2012. Stanislas Wawrinka beat his opponent. In 2013, the athlete’s game was not clear-cut. In the duel with Nadal, Stanislas Wawrinka showed a very good game. But at the last moment the opponent turned out to be stronger. This is the twelfth defeat in the fight with Nadal. But the match with Federer turned out much better. The game lasted two and a half hours. Varvinka won.
In 2009, Stanislas Wawrinka married a TV presenter. In 2010, their daughter was born. But after some time the family had to leave. According to the young athlete, this had to be done for the sake of sport. But now they are back together and planning to have a second child.
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