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EXCLUSIVE:Tennis love birds Katie Boulter and Alex de Minaur tell all about their romance, adoring Jamie Vardy and tackle our Mr & Mrs quiz
Alex de Minaur, world No 11 tennis player and part-time resident of Spain, is sitting in Madrid on a Clasico weekend, describing, deadpan, how he is a follower of Leicester City now.
I’m definitely Leicester. I’ve learned to love Leicester,’ he relates.
This revelation, it must be said, has required a little encouragement from the individual sitting to his right. That would be Katie Boulter, world No 28 and British No 1, whose introduction of De Minaur to the sights of her beloved Leicestershire have included their drive past the King Power Stadium and trip into the club shop, which saw him leave with a Leicester City football. Though how personally motivated he was to possess one remains a matter of some conjecture.
‘She made me buy a Leicester football,’ De Minaur relates, breaking into a grin.
‘That’s a lie! You bought that by yourself!’ Boulter retorts.