Report: Philippoussis is engaged to teen model
SYDNEY: Australian tennis player Mark Philippoussis is engaged to his American model girlfriend of five months, a newspaper reported yesterday. A spokesman for his management company, however, says they don't know anything about it.
Sydney's Daily Telegraph said Philippoussis proposed to Alexis Barbara (pic), an 18-year-old New York-based model and part-time actress, while the two were in the United States. The engagement comes five months after he broke up with Australian singer-actress Delta Goodrem, whom he had been dating for nine months.
A spokesman for Philippoussis' agent, Brian Cooney of International Management Group in Melbourne, said they were not aware of any engagement plans – “at least we weren't told anything about it”.
The Daily Telegraph quoted unidentified friends of the 28-year-old Philippoussis as saying that the engagement had surprised them, “but Mark is very much in love with Alexis.”
Australia's No. 1 player, Lleyton Hewitt, became engaged to his actress girlfriend, Bec Cartwright, in January on the night Hewitt lost the Australian Open final to Marat Safin. Hewitt and Belgian tennis player Kim Clijsters broke off their engagement last October.
Philippoussis' ranking in world tennis has slipped into the 200s after a run of poor performances in 2004. He was not chosen for Australia's Davis Cup team who play Austria this weekend in Sydney. – AP
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