Vaidisova and Stepanek to Wed?

Lots of meaning in this Reebok ad, no?

I get busy with my B&B for a week and return to tennis to find out that Czechs Nicole Vaidisova and Radek Stepanek have applied for a marriage license in Florida?

Manatee County Florida Clerk of the Circuit Court
Court House Information Processing System
CASE

Case Number 41 2007 ML 001967

Case Type Marriage License File Date 12/10/2007

Case Action Code MARRIAGE LICENSE WITHOUT COURSE Case Status Open

PARTIES
Rcd Party Type Name D.O.B. Gender Race
1 Groom STEPANEK , RADEK 1978 CAUC
2 Bride VAIDISOVA , NICOLE 1989 CAUC

Source

The Bradenton Herald ran this yesterday:

Vaidisova, Stepanek apply for marriage license

HERALD STAFF
Bradenton resident Nicole Vaidisova, the 12th-ranked women's tennis player in the world, has filed papers for a marriage license with men's professional tennis player Radek Stepanek, according to information received from the Manatee County Clerk of Circuit Court.

Vaidisova and Stepanek applied for the marriage license Dec. 10, and their names are on a public records list that will appear in Sunday's Herald.

Vaidisova's agent at IMG Academies, Olivier Van Lindonk, could not be reached for comment.

The 18-year-old Vaidisova turned pro in 2003 and is coming off her best year on the WTA Tour. She reached the semifinals at the Australian Open and the quarterfinals of the French Open and Wimbledon.

Stepanek, 29, has two career titles on the ATP Tour, including one earlier this year in Los Angeles. His best Grand Slam showing was a quarterfinal berth at Wimbledon in 2006.

Stepanek was previously engaged to another tennis player, Martina Hingis, but the two broke off their engagement in August.

But what. There's more.

Apparently NikkiV is pregnant. When I saw her comeback at the US Open, she was a lot more robust than she was before her illness absence. Not that she was pregnant back then (or even now as this hasn't been confirmed), but she went from teenager to full-grown woman overnight. Sex will do that do you. Or birth control pills.

Maybe this is why Martina was snorting the baseline?

Karen, oh, Karen, where are you? Just when you thought tennis players were boring and nothing happens in the off-season...