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NJ Couple’s US Open Love Story Comes Full Circle With Viral Jumbotron Proposal
Two years after their first kiss lit up the Jumbotron at the US Open, and four years after their first date at the Grand Slam event, a New Jersey couple returned to the same seats.
And this time, the guy had a ring.
Brett Kraft, 39, who grew up in New Providence, proposed to his fiancée Sophia Fredriksson, 27, a native of Sweden, during the Friday, Aug. 29 match between Aryna Sabalenka and Leylah Fernandez at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens.
Kraft, who lives in Madison with Fredriksson, had been quietly planning the proposal for months.
He p…