{"id":405208,"date":"2026-02-03T07:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T07:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/405208\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T07:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T07:22:14","slug":"casper-ruud-is-a-new-dad-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/405208\/","title":{"rendered":"Casper Ruud is a New Dad! \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Richard Pagliaro | Monday, February 2, 2026<br \/>Photo credit: Matthew Calvis<\/p>\n<p>Casper Ruud is a new dad!<\/p>\n<p>Ruud\u2019s fianc\u00e9 Maria Galligani gave birth to the couple\u2019s first child, a daughter. Ruud announced the joyous news on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"610\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Pro-Player-Gear-610X150-03.jpg\" alt=\"tennis express pro player gear\" class=\"wp-image-54451\"  data-\/>tennis express pro player gear<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you for all the beautiful messages these past couple of weeks,\u201d Ruud captioned a photo of his baby daughter. \u201cMaria and our baby are doing great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former world No. 2 told the media in Auckland the couple plans to get married later this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLater in the year we\u2019ll have our wedding and celebrate our marriage,\u201d Ruud said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Richard Pagliaro | Monday, February 2, 2026Photo credit: Matthew Calvis Casper Ruud is a new dad! Ruud\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-405208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}