Crush found its way into the World Cup via the Italian players (grandissimo hunk-fest) but struggled to get excited in the run-up to Wimbledon (soz to our cover star) until we started paying more attention to Maria Sharapova and her man friend Grigor Dimitrov. Ooooh, now here’s a narrative we can get into: she’s the big hitter, winning the French Open earlier this month and ranked the fifth best female player in the universe; her Bulgarian beau is ranked only 13th but has just won Queen’s. It’s not that we see all relationships as a competition but, whatever, Maria totally wins this one. And as our newfound interest in sport has taught us, it’s good to back a champ. So if we’re ever invited to play mixed doubles, no prizes for guessing who we’d choose for a partner.
