Grigor Dimitrov's tale of beginning his courtship of Maria Sharapova should serve as an inspiration to computer nerds everywhere. Older computer nerds, that is.
The Telegraph reported that the relationship between the tennis stars featured electronic roots, according to Dimitrov.
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"How, I wonder, did he pluck up the courage to ask her out on a date - aside from her (6-foot-2) statuesque figure, she is quite clearly as hard as nails - particularly as at that time he was a relative minnow in the game?" The Telegraph reports. "He reacts with incredulity. 'Everyone says that. I know when you see her you don't want to even talk to her but to me I knew there was something behind that. I emailed her out of the blue. I felt we always had this thing for each other.
'We were both in China, me in Shanghai, her in Beijing. I sat down for lunch and saw her playing on television and emailed right away. We started talking a bit, then a month later when the season was over we saw each other and that became that.'"
Dimitrov also revealed that he more than showers Sharapova, the No. 4-ranked women's tennis player in the world, with flowers. He nearly drowns her in them.
"Dimitrov, 24, normally also prefers to sidestep personal questions about Sharapova, but when I ask him what he bought for her 28th birthday, which she celebrated the day before we met, a smitten grin spreads and he admits dispatching a mammoth bouquet of red roses to Stuttgart where she was playing in a tournament. 'Her favorite, mine as well. Sometimes I just go crazy and send her hundreds - 500 is the most I've ever sent at once.'"
And while The Telegraph uses the phrase "Golden Couple" to describe the pair, Dimitrov shrugs off the moniker.
"Regarding the 'golden couple', in a way I guess it's inevitable for people to say that but for me - and it may sound very cheesy - she is just Maria. I don't see her how everybody else does. Other things in life are much more important than that. It's about the person and how they are with me. She's the greatest competitor that is still playing the game but that stops right there for me because I feel I'm a much deeper person than all that."
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