Garbine Muguruza was crowned Wimbledon champion in 2017, but another day will now stay in her memory forever after getting married to Arthur Borges.

And incredibly, the newlyweds first met in a chance encounter when Borges, as a fan, asked the tennis star for a selfie during the US Open.

Muguruza etched herself into SW19 victory when she defeated Venus Williams in the final seven years ago, less than 13 months after her first Grand Slam victory at the French Open, before the former world No. 1 retired in 2024.

The 31-year-old explained that she was looking forward to “doing nothing” after hanging up her racket for good, only to tie the knot with her beau just five months later in an intimate Marbella ceremony.

“It’s a total movie,” she told Spanish publication HOLA!. “I knew I would marry him even before he asked me. When we met, it was love at first sight and we realised very quickly that we were an ideal couple.”

That first meeting came on the streets of New York, while Murguruza met the model and businessman while taking a break from the US Open circus on a walk around Central Park.

“My hotel was close to Central Park and I was bored, so I thought I should go for a walk,” she previously explained. “I go out and I run into him on the street. Suddenly, he turns and says ‘Good luck at the US Open’. I was left thinking, ‘Wow, he’s so handsome’.”

Borges, who was in New York working as a model for Tom Ford, made quite the impression on his wife-to-be. He asked her for a selfie and they continued to spend time together while the pair were both Stateside, bonding over having mixed ethnicities.

“He’s a mix, like me,” she explained. “I’m half-Venezuelan and half-Spanish, so we understand each other. We share that feeling of being citizens of the world.”

Borges was born in Spain but has lived in Finland for most of his life.

He popped the question in May during a trip to Marbella, after less than two years of dating. Recalling the moment he proposed, Muguruza gushed: “It felt weird. I was thinking something else and then when he proposed I started crying. I didn’t know how to react. I said yes in the midst of tears, it was very romantic.”

After tying the knot at the same place where Borges proposed, the married couple can now build their life together as one alongside Muguruza’s new job as Tournament Director of the WTA Finals in Riyadh, which take place next month.