Australian tennis legend Pat Cash has announced he\u2019s engaged to his \u201csoulmate\u201d.<\/p>\n
Cash, who is in New York for the US Open, revealed he proposed to partner Charlotte Hodson.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery now and then, life can surprise you in the very best way,\u2019\u2019 he wrote on social media.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m so incredibly lucky to know that through an amazing string of coincidences I found my soulmate. I can\u2019t help but believe God had it all planned to perfection. She said yes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hodson, a singer\/songwriter and massage therapist, first appeared publicly with Cash at Wimbledon last year.<\/p>\n
Cash, the Melbourne raised commentator and coach, posed alongside his love while mingling in the royal box.<\/p>\n
The 61 year-old, who famously won Wimbledon in 1987 over Ivan Lendl, has largely kept out of the spotlight with his private life.<\/p>\n
He has four children and became a dad at 21 \u2014 previously married to Emily Bendit with whom he has twin sons, and prior to that, he had two children with his then-girlfriend, Norwegian model Anne-Britt Kristiansen, in his early twenties.<\/p>\n
At age 44 he became a grandfather.<\/p>\n
In 2011 Cash was romantically linked to TV host Tania Zaetta.<\/p>\n
He posted with his rarely seen adult sons at Wimbledon this year, saying it was special having them by his side.<\/p>\n
In 2014 he said his children saved his life, telling The Guardian: \u201cIf it wasn\u2019t for my kids, I might have killed myself. I suffered from severe depression from the age of 19 until 35. It\u2019s no secret I experimented with drugs when I was younger, but the real issue was why I felt the need to. It was down to the stress I was under playing for my country, the expectations I put on myself and the expectations people put on me. I ended up checking into rehab for depression. Things got better when I retired from playing professionally.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian tennis legend Pat Cash has announced he\u2019s engaged to his \u201csoulmate\u201d. Cash, who is in New York…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10025,343850,19382,355409,201369,376793,444064,444039,444045,444056,64,63,444052,8879,444057,444041,4830,1730,444065,134,436151,287311,444046,378590,444051,389167,392379,392401,444042,444063,444044,444059,444067,444062,444049,8280,444066,403913,444040,1025,444060,444047,62968,12625,170618,180389,444058,1314,286994,146596,406208,444061,79741,444048,376541,404617,444053,376557,444054,41119,444050,364611,444055,444043,379345,749,100843],"class_list":["post-874746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-10025","tag-343850","tag-19382","tag-355409","tag-201369","tag-a-dad","tag-a-grandfather-in-2011","tag-a-singer-songwriter-and-massage-therapist","tag-age-44","tag-an-amazing-string","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-tennis-legend-pat-cash","tag-cash","tag-coincidences","tag-commentator-and-coach","tag-depression","tag-drugs","tag-emily-bendit","tag-entertainment","tag-four-children","tag-god","tag-his-soulmate","tag-his-children","tag-his-early-twenties-at","tag-his-life","tag-his-love","tag-his-partner","tag-his-private-life-he","tag-his-rarely-seen-adult-sons","tag-his-side-in","tag-his-then-girlfriend","tag-hodson","tag-ivan-lendl","tag-last-year-cash","tag-life","tag-my-country","tag-my-kids","tag-my-soulmate","tag-new-york","tag-norwegian-model-anne-britt-kristiansen","tag-partner-charlotte-hodson","tag-pat-cash","tag-perfection","tag-rehab","tag-severe-depression","tag-singer-songwriter-charlotte-hodson","tag-social-media","tag-soulmate","tag-the-age","tag-the-expectations","tag-the-expectations-people","tag-the-guardian","tag-the-melbourne","tag-the-need","tag-the-real-issue","tag-the-royal-box-the-61-year-old","tag-the-spotlight","tag-the-stress","tag-the-us-open","tag-the-very-best-way","tag-this-year","tag-tv-host-tania-zaetta-he","tag-twin-sons","tag-two-children","tag-wimbledon","tag-younger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}