Swedish star weds in S.A.
NZPA-Reuter Shongwenl The Swedish tennis star, Mats Wilander, sporting a hint of pink, married a South African model, Sonya Mulholland, in a pink-and-white tent amid tight security on Saturday. Private security guards checked the names and car registrations of guests arriving for the wedding on a luxury estate in South Africa’s wealthy sugarfarm area. Journalists were allowed a brief photo call. Wilander, ranked third in the world, is a tennis hero in Sweden but his decision to marry Mulholland in South Africa caused a Swedish press outcry. But antiapartheid groups there have said it was a private matter and they respected his pledge not to play in the Republic as a protest against Pretoria’s race policies. Miss Mulholland and her bridesmaids and flower girls wore pink and white. Wilander, aged 23, carried through the colour scheme by adding a pink cummerbund to his black suit and white shirt Wilander and his bride plan to continue living in the apartment thc£.share in New York. (
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Press, 5 January 1987, Page 24
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