{"id":770448,"date":"2026-06-30T05:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T05:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/770448\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T05:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T05:56:13","slug":"djokovic-asks-for-marriage-invitation-after-proposal-during-his-wimbledon-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/770448\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic asks for marriage invitation after proposal during his Wimbledon match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (AP) \u2014 Novak Djokovic witnessed a marriage proposal in the crowd at Centre Court during his <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wimbledon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wimbledon<\/a> first-round match Monday and was quick to ask for an invitation to the wedding.<\/p>\n<p>After Djokovic won the first set against Wu Yibing of China, one man in the crowd took the opportunity to pop the question to his girlfriend.<\/p>\n<p>The seven-time Wimbledon champion clearly took notice, coming back out on court and making a heart gesture and then two thumbs up toward the couple before shouting out: \u201cI want an invitation to the wedding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If he gets one, he could bring a pretty decent wedding singer along.<\/p>\n<p>Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny was in the player\u2019s box on Centre Court, two days after Djokovic appeared on stage during the artist\u2019s concert in London.<\/p>\n<p>Bad Bunny has experience with weddings \u2014 there was a real one performed <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/bad-bunny-super-bowl-halftime-show-wedding-2c3e605f21ffc2dd15d71a8322c167b6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">during his Super Bowl halftime show<\/a> this year.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP tennis: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON (AP) \u2014 Novak Djokovic witnessed a marriage proposal in the crowd at Centre Court during his Wimbledon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[23632,49,48,75,2083,82,593,614,50316],"class_list":["post-770448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-bad-bunny","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-wimbledon","tag-wimbledon-championships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}