Return journey Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf at the Wimbledon Champions' Dinner in 1992 and playing an exhibition mixed doubles at the All England Club 17 years later
NO GRAND SLAM MIXED DOUBLES TITLE HAS BEEN WON BY A MARRIED COUPLE FOR MORE THAN 80 YEARS
Fabio Fognini married Flavia Pennetta the year after the latter retired following her US Open triumph in 2015, while Nicole Vaidisova, who had been a Grand Slam semi-finalist at 17, married her fellowCzech, Radek Stepanek, in 2010, just after retiring at the age of 20.They divorced three years later but married again in 2018 after Vaidisova had given up on an attempted comeback. Miroslava (“Mirka”) Vavrinecmarried Roger Federer in 2009, seven years after she retired due to injury.They had first met while representing Switzerland at the Sydney Olympics in 2000 and played together two years later at the Hopman Cup mixed teamevent in Perth, losing two of their three matches, shortly before her retirement.
Back together Radek Stepanek and
Nicole Vaidisova married in 2010, divorced three years later and remarried in 2018
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