Maria Navratilova proposed to her partner at the U.S Open! The tennis champion stole the spotlight as she popped the question to her long time partner Julia Lemigova at the Arthur Ashe Stadium between the men's semi finals.
When Kei Nishikori's won over Novak Djokovic . She appeared on the big, and went down to her knees. Julia Lemigova, who was surprised, said yes.
"I was very nervous," Navratilova said later to an interview with Tennis Suite. "It came off. She said yes. It was kind of an out-of-body experience. You've seen people propose at sporting events before, in movies, in real life. Here it was happening to me. It was like I was watching myself do it." After the proposal Maria
Navratilava supposedly will postpone the 'champions' doubles with Tracy Austin against Gigi Fernandez and Jana Navotna. But fortunately the Kei Nishikori and Novak Djokovic match ended up in four sets.
Austin and Navratilova played the doubles and won over their opponent Gigi Fernandez and Jana Navotna.
Tracy Austin who missed the proposal asked Navratilava to re- enact it and she willingly did it again.
According to Mail Online the 57- yeard-old added, 'I have been waiting for the right time to ask Julia to marry me. I thought this was the right place and the right time to pop the question and thankfully I got a 'yes'.'
After her victorious night she posted on twitter, "Thanks everyone for your good wishes - I am very happy, so is Julia and our whole family " Navratilova and Lemigova prefers to get married in Florida where they live with Lemigova's two daughters. They've been together for 6 years now.
'We are very happy together and Martina has made our family complete.', Lemigova said in interview.
Maria Navratilova's proposal was really amazing. Do you agree? Leave your comments below!
