Love, set & ♥ match: Romances in the sports world

Danica Patrick's new love is on the fast track -- but she's not the first athlete to have taken this romantic route.

By Kamal Wallace

updated 10:30 AM EST, Mon January 28, 2013

It looks like we may have sports’ newest power couple.

Danica Patrick recently revealed that she’s dating fellow driver Ricky Stenhouse Jr. She announced late last year that she and her husband Paul Hospenthal were divorcing after seven years of marriage.

The new pairing could lead to some tension on the track: Patrick and Stenhouse Jr. will be competing against each other in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. As this tweet suggests, Patrick is taking the public's reaction to her dating life in stride:

Thanks everyone for all of your nice messages, and the bump drafting jokes are cracking me up! Let the fun begin.

— Danica Patrick (@DanicaPatrick) January 25, 2013

Check out our gallery of other athletes who dated or married within the sports world. Let us know who we missed in the comments section below.

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