The couple will be married next Friday, with Alex Corretja whom Costa beat in the semi-finals, the best man.
But for writers of lesser renown, for whom Costa is a place to slave away behind a laptop fuelled by coffee and dreams of making it, there are a growing number of alternative routes to recognition, not all of them flattering.
None of the current players, except Gustavo Kuerten, the former champion whom Costa beat in the fourth round, has won more titles on clay, but Costa, who turns 27 this month, appeared not to have either the temperament or the weapons to win a grand slam.
Karolyi is the only partner Costas has ever worked with, in a studio or at a game, about whom Costas reminds viewers, jokingly, about his lack of objectivity.
To be fair, this is not the first time the prize has deployed celebrities – Hugh Grant, Alex James, Liza Tarbuck and Ralph Fiennes are just some of the people with whom the Costas have snazzed up their judging panels in years gone by.
It served as the global launch of Downtown Calvin Klein, but more important, it celebrated the end of a full decade at the helm for the Brazilian-born Mr. Costa, whom Calvin Klein selected to be his successor.
But he put off a lot of businessmen, many of whom switched to Costas Simitis and the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (Pasok) at the general election last September, because Mr Simitis genuinely seemed to have sloughed off the profligate economics and cheap populism of his late predecessor, Andreas Papandreou.Mr Karamanlis is a lawyer.
At Gucci, she worked on a team that included Christopher Bailey and Francisco Costa, both of whom have gone on to personify the broader role that designers are taking as brand managers.
A decade after the death of his wife Lucinda Gane, whom he elegised in 2009's Costa-winning A Scattering, it would seem his sex life is more vidi than veni or vici.
He is a play-by-play announcer with some wit, unlike Bob Costas, whom Buck is succeeding at HBO; Costas came to the cable network as a fully formed host.
Mr. Perez, 49, who quickly apologized, explained that Mr. Costa was a longtime friend whom he paid for the work, albeit late.
