Andre Agassi Steffi Graf: David and Victoria Beckham Power of Sports Star Couples
In sports we see a lot of strange happenings almost every day. One of the strangest is the media’s constant attention on celebrity couples. Although a lot of people say they eschew celebrity gossip but do admit to a bit of morbid curiosity when it comes to their personal lives. Why this matters so much, no one knows except the celebrity gossip junkies. The case gets even more bizarre when the media focuses on ‘sports stars’ and who they are dating.
There was a big hype about a sports couple who got married in the Sub continent. It was the Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik and the Indian tennis star Sania Mirza. The amount of media hype surrounding these two went a little crazy and this posed an interesting question, are there sports couples out there who may be more deserving than these two for the title of the greatest sporting couple ever? Though lots of contenders emerge for the title, one couple must stand tall over all others as the best ever. What factors would the greatest sports couple have that others wouldn’t? They would have to be famous, they would also have to be successful at their respective fields and have something more than the other couples out there.
Some of the contenders on this list are Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf, David and Victoria Beckham, Sasha Vujacic and Maria Sharapova and Anna Kournikova with Enrique Iglesias. But out of these only few of them are a genuine sports couple with both of the spouses being sport stars, which are the best. If we look at them one by one we may be able to come to some sort of an answer as to why people love them so much and why they are better than other couples out there.
The first couple Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf are a top tennis pair. They were both very famous in their sport and got to the top of their game. Agassi was the comeback kid when it came to playing men’s tennis in the late 90s and Steffi Graf was a power house in women’s tennis winning many championships in her day. They are both very famous and were very successful and had a huge fan following separately. They because of the reasons given above are a very strong contender for the most powerful sports couple. David and Victoria Beckham are another very strong sports couple.
He is an insanely famous footballer and she is a former pop star. They were both also very famous and had legions of fans between them but over the years Victoria Beckham’s career has dwindled and she is now less of a pop star and more of a footballer’s wife. Sasha Vujacic and Maria Sharapova are an interesting sports couple. He is a basketball player playing in the NBA for the LA Lakers and she is a famous women’s tennis player. They are both equally famous in their respective fields and each has fans separately to one another. The last on this list are Anna Kournikova and Enrique Iglesias. She is a mediocre tennis player and he is a pretty famous singer and actor. The thing about these two is that Kournikova it seems hangs onto her celebrity status rather than her tennis and even though she has fans she is more famous for being famous than for being a great tennis player.
So now to the big decision; who is the most powerful sports couple out of this list? After much deliberation the field has been narrowed to two power couples; David and Victoria Beckham and Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf.
They are each independently famous and great at what they do and each independently have many fans. So who wins? At the end of the day it comes down to who a person likes more but it seems that in every list out there and for the sheer amount of media attention they get the winning couple are David and Victoria Beckham. Even though she is not a sports star, the power of her husband’s sports reaches great heights and she doesn’t need to do anything.
Beckham in 2004 was the world's highest-paid footballer and was Google's most searched of all sports topics in both 2003 and 2004. With such global recognition he has become an elite advertising brand and a top fashion icon.
It is inevitable that we will see many more sporting couples emerge and maybe one day someone will knock the current power couple off their throne but not any time soon. Nevertheless the insatiable hunger for celebrity gossip will never end!
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