Game, set and match: Tennis champ Maria Sharapova is engaged to Lakers star boyfriend

 

 

By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 6:44 PM on 22nd October 2010

 

• Comments (6)
  
• Add to My Stories
  

 

Love is in the air.

World tennis star Maria Sharapova and her LA Lakers player boyfriend Sasha Vujacic are getting married.

The Slovenian basketball star, 26, proposed to the Russian champion, 23, at his home in Manhattan Beach, California over the weekend with an enormous diamond ring.

 

Making it forever: Maria Sharapova and Sasha Vujacic, pictured here in New York September 6, have announced their engagement after a year together

 

The couple have been dating for a year after first going public with their relationship last November at a U2 concert at the Los Angeles Staples Centre.

This past summer the pair spent time together in Florida, where the Lakers, for whom Sasha plays shooting guard, were taking part in the IMG academy before jetting off for a romantic holiday to Italy.

Sasha recently gushed about why their relationship works so well, saying: 'As two pro athletes -- in different sports -- we both understand what the other is doing and going through, and what it takes to do well in what we do,' he told NBA Fan House.

'She's working hard. I'm working hard. It's good together.'

 

Champ: Maria, 23, has won three grand slam titles and talked about taking early retirement to settle down

 

Sasha won a Championship ring last year with the Lakers while his future wife has won three grand slam titles and in 2007 was the highest paid female athlete in the World.

She has also been voted the Hottest Athlete in the World by Maxim Magazine four years in a row.

More...

 

 

• Wayne Rooney is staying! Under-fire Man Utd star in extraordinary U-turn as he signs new five-year contract
  
• Kim Kardashian broadcasts Reggie Bush's emotional call... made as she moved on to Miles Austin
  

 

In January 2010 it was announced that Sharapova had renewed her contract with Nike, signing an 8 year deal for $70 million.

This is the most lucrative deal ever for a sportswoman, dwarfing the previous record, which was Venus Williams' $43 million deal with Reebok - that makes her quite the catch.

 

Announcement: Vujacic shared the news of his engagement before taking to the court last night against Golden State Warriors in San Diego

 

 

 

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1322885/Maria-Sharapova-engaged-Lakers-star-Sasha-Vujacic.html#ixzz13729ZCWF

Cool.