Rohan Bopanna should consider himself a lucky man. Not only is the tennis star still head-over-heels in love with his wife Supriya Annaiah, he says that she doesn’t get mad with all the female attention that comes his way. Unfortunately, being a famous, tall and handsome tennis player send a lot of adoring female fans his way.
Well, I’m married, so I think the fans know by now to leave me alone,” Rohan jokes. “But jokes aside, Supriya’s cool with it. She says its a great thing to have so many fans come out and recognise you. They have every right to come and speak to you, no matter what they want to speak to you about,” he says seriously.
The doubles player, who is currently ranked no 13, visibly grins when this reporter asks about his lady love, ahead of his match against the pair of Benoît Paire and Wawrinka. “Marriage is super,” he tells us a year after he tied the knot. “It’s always nice to have family on the road with you, and with Supriya, it’s great to have her with me during tournaments!” he says with a grin. Ask Rohan his wishlist for 2014 and pat comes the answer – win a grand slam title. Prod some more and out comes the second one. “I want to show my wife the rest of the cities (on the Tour), the parts she’s not seen. She’s seen the cities from June to December. I want to show her the ones from January to June,” he says with an even bigger grin. Aside from tennis, marriage has also brought about another change in Rohan’s travel itinerary. He finally gets to look around the cities he travels to.
And it’s all because of the wife. “I’ve been to so many places, but I usually never go out,” he says and admits that when it comes to doing touristy things in a city, it is Supriya who does all the work. “Usually, I’d just be sitting in my hotel room after practise, ordering room service, not doing anything. Now that my wife is there, she makes an effort to read up on what to do in the city we’re in and makes me go with her,” he says. “Also, now there’s somebody to go see these places with,” he adds with a wry smile.
source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> Cities> Chennai / by Janane Venkatraman – Chennai / January 01st, 2014
