The couple have been together for eight years
Novak Djokovic, the world's top-ranked tennis player, announced via social media on Wednesday with the purpose of he was engaged to marry his longtime girlfriend, Jelena Ristic.
"Meet my fiance (sic) and future wife," Djokovic, 26, alleged in a tweet with the purpose of linked to a photo of the Serbian-born tennis star being kissed by his fiancee, and a Serb. "So on cloud nine! Thank you designed for the wonderful wishes #NoleFam and links!"
Ristic is well-known to tennis fans as a fashionable and enthusiastic presence next to Djokovic's matches and is director of his charitable foundation.
Djokovic became a top-10 player on the ATP tour in 2007 but was overshadowed designed for several years by Roger Federer, the so-called Swiss Maestro, considered by many to be the supreme tennis player of all calculate, and Spaniard Rafael Nadal.
But in 2011 Djokovic surged ancient history both men to aver the numeral 1 position by putting unruffled solitary of the paramount seasons in the sport's advanced era, winning the Australian Open, Wimbledon and the U.S. Open and trailing no more than six matches.
Though Federer in brief reclaimed the No. 1 spy with winning Wimbledon in 2012, Djokovic has held it designed for the majority of the ancient history two years.
Earlier this month he lost to Nadal in the finals of the U.S. Open.
Djokovic, who credits his be apparent to the top of his sport in part merit to a gluten-free diet, in eminent released an autobiographical put your name down for a propos his sustenance and training regime, patrician "Serve to Win."
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| Novak Djokovic and Jelena Ristic |
"Meet my fiance (sic) and future wife," Djokovic, 26, alleged in a tweet with the purpose of linked to a photo of the Serbian-born tennis star being kissed by his fiancee, and a Serb. "So on cloud nine! Thank you designed for the wonderful wishes #NoleFam and links!"
Ristic is well-known to tennis fans as a fashionable and enthusiastic presence next to Djokovic's matches and is director of his charitable foundation.
Djokovic became a top-10 player on the ATP tour in 2007 but was overshadowed designed for several years by Roger Federer, the so-called Swiss Maestro, considered by many to be the supreme tennis player of all calculate, and Spaniard Rafael Nadal.
But in 2011 Djokovic surged ancient history both men to aver the numeral 1 position by putting unruffled solitary of the paramount seasons in the sport's advanced era, winning the Australian Open, Wimbledon and the U.S. Open and trailing no more than six matches.
Though Federer in brief reclaimed the No. 1 spy with winning Wimbledon in 2012, Djokovic has held it designed for the majority of the ancient history two years.
Earlier this month he lost to Nadal in the finals of the U.S. Open.
Djokovic, who credits his be apparent to the top of his sport in part merit to a gluten-free diet, in eminent released an autobiographical put your name down for a propos his sustenance and training regime, patrician "Serve to Win."
