Garbiñe Muguruza, who won the 2016 French Open and the 2017 Wimbledon Championships, is set to marry a man she met during a random encounter around the 2021 US Open.
Muguruza announced on Instagram and in the Spanish media that she will marry model Arthur Borges. She posted a photo with Borges on her social media account with a caption straight out of the Tom Cruise movie «Jerry Maguire.»
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Garbiñe Muguruza makes a return during the women’s singles first round match against Elise Mertens of Belgium at the Australian Open tennis tournament, in Melbourne, Australia on January 17, 2023. (Guo Lei/Xinhua via Getty Images)
«You had me at ‘Hello’.»
The tennis star and the model have one of the most interesting backstories of any relationship. She served Hello! Spain about how they met. She said that Borges was a fan of hers and asked her for a photo on the street.
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Arthur Borges and Garbiñe Muguruza attend the Vanity Fair Personality of the Year Gala where Spanish singer Raphael is honored at Teatro Real on November 30, 2021 in Madrid. (Aldara Zarraoa/Getty Images)
«My hotel was near Central Park and I was bored, so I thought I should go for a walk,» she told the outlet in Spanish. “I go out and I find him on the street. Suddenly, she turns around and says ‘Good luck at the US Open’. I kept thinking, ‘Wow, he’s so handsome.'»
Muguruza said that Borges outside the world of tennis was a green flag for her.
The two got engaged in Marbella and Muguruza said she was taken by surprise.
«It felt weird,» he said. “I was thinking about something else and then when he proposed to me I started crying. I didn’t know how to react. I said yes through tears, it was very romantic.»
Garbiñe Muguruza poses with her boyfriend Arthur Borges after defeating Anett Kontaveit of Estonia during the women’s singles final on day 8 of the 2021 Akron WTA Finals Guadalajara at the Centro Panamericano de Tenis on November 17, 2021 in Guadalajara, Mexico. (Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)
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Muguruza is 449-238 in career singles matches. He was ranked No. 1 in the world in 2017, but returned to No. 132 in April. He lost in the first round of the Australian Open in January and failed to qualify for the French Open.