Tennis players Denis Shapovalov and Mirjam Bjorklund announced their engagement on social media on Thursday.
According to an Instagram post, Shapovalov got down on one knee in Bastad, Sweden. Bjorklund, who is inside the top 150 of the WTA Rankings, is Swedish, meanwhile Shapovalov hails from Canada.
Fellow tennis stars Sloane Stephens, Wu Yibing, Alex Corretja and Monica Puig quickly congratulated the couple.
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It must be noted that Shapovalov and Bjorklund began dating in 2019.
The duo were born less than nine months apart but they did not know each other well in the tennis juniors.
“We knew each other a little bit in juniors but not a lot. He was doing a lot better than I was, so I would just see his name in the finals and I would be on a flight back home, but I didn’t know him personally at that time,” Bjorklund said in March earlier this year. “We got to know each other a couple years later.”
“Denis can’t be around all the time when I’m playing events, so it’s super nice to have him support me in the box and I think he has a great eye for my game and for tennis in general, so I really trust him when he tells me things and when he coaches me, but he’s very keen on the fact that he’s not my coach,” said Bjorklund, who is coached by Jonas Bjorkman. “He’s just my boyfriend and supporting [me] in those moments, but I do really appreciate that and I know that I can trust what he’s saying, so it’s very reassuring when I have him there.”