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<\/p>\n Off Court News
\n Djokovic, Alcaraz lead congratulations as Sabalenka announces engagement <\/p>\n
WTA World No. 1 got engaged to partner Frangulis ahead of BNP Paribas Open<\/p>\n
March 04, 2026<\/p>\n
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Novak Djokovic and Aryna Sabalenka are both competing at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells this fortnight.
\n By ATP Staff<\/p>\n
Novak Djokovic<\/a> led the congratulations for Aryna Sabalenka on Tuesday after the WTA No. 1 announced her engagement to Georgios Frangulis ahead of the BNP Paribas Open<\/a> in Indian Wells.<\/p>\n Sabalenka shared the news on social media, drawing messages from stars on both the WTA and ATP Tours. Among the first to respond was Djokovic, who has long shared a friendly rapport with Sabalenka, both on and off the court.<\/p>\n The 24-time major champion commented with three love hearts on Sabalenka\u2019s Instagram post. The pair have often spoken highly of one another, and their camaraderie was on full display at Wimbledon<\/a> last year when they teamed up for a light-hearted joint press conference appearance.<\/p>\n Carlos Alcaraz<\/a>, the No. 1 player in the PIF ATP Rankings and a two-time Indian Wells champion, also chimed in on Sabalenka\u2019s post. \u201cCongratulatiooooons!,\u201d the Spaniard wrote.<\/p>\n American star Ben Shelton<\/a> joined the chorus of support. \u201cCongratsss,\u201d the 23-year-old said.<\/p>\n The top-seeded Alcaraz and third-seeded Djokovic have landed in the same half of the draw at the ATP Masters 1000 event, which runs from 4-15 March. The 22-year-old Spaniard levelled his Lexus ATP Head2Head series with Djokovic at 5-5 after winning their Australian Open<\/a> final in January to become the youngest man to complete the Career Grand Slam.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Off Court News Djokovic, Alcaraz lead congratulations as Sabalenka announces engagement WTA World No. 1 got engaged to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-503884","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\/503884","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=503884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}