Lucie Safarova Marries NHL Star Tomas Plekanec

Lucie Safarova married her finance’ Tomas Plekanec yesterday. The couple got engaged in 2019 and have a daughter Lea, who was born in 2019.

Tomas Plekanec is an NHL player who played for the Montreal Canadiens, a popular NHL team, for most of his career. During his NHL career, he was famous for wearing a turtleneck undershirt.

Safarova shared the news of the wedding on social media with pictures. Many WTA tennis players congratulated the couple on Instagram.

Safarova won 5 grand slam titles with Bethanie Mattek-Sands. In singles, she reached the finals at the 2015 French Open and the semifinals at Wimbledon in 2014. She won the bronze medal in doubles for the Czech Republic partnering Barbora Strýcová at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics.

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Kevin Krawietz Marries Girlfriend Judit

German doubles specialist Kevin Krawietz married his girlfriend Judit this weekend. He shared the news on social media with a picture of the newlywed.

Krawietz won the French Open doubles title in  2019 and 2020 with fellow German Andreas Mies. The pair became the first all-German team to win a doubles grand slam title. As a junior, he won the 2009 boys’ doubles title with Pierre-Hugues Herbert.

He has represented Germany in Davis Cup and at the Olympics.  He reached a career-high doubles ranking of world number 7 in 2019.

Krawietz made the news in 2019 when he was found working at the Lidl supermarket in Munich when tennis was shut down as a result of the COVIC-19 pandemic. His job duties involved stocking shelves, disinfecting carts, and providing security at the front entrance of the supermarket. 

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