{"id":447943,"date":"2026-02-04T05:32:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T05:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/447943\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T05:32:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T05:32:41","slug":"casper-ruud-is-a-new-dad-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/447943\/","title":{"rendered":"Casper Ruud is a New Dad! \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Richard Pagliaro | Monday, February 2, 2026<br \/>Photo credit: Casper Ruud Instagram<\/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\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/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: Casper Ruud Instagram Casper Ruud is a new dad!&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-447943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}