Who is Andrea Preti – and is he really dating Venus Williams? The seven-time Grand Slam champion got cosy with the Danish hottie on a yacht in Italy – but he’s dated another tennis star before

The seven-time Grand Slam champion was previously linked to tennis player Reilly Opelka, Nicky Hammond of the wealthy Annenberg family, and Elio Pis, a model.

But who is her new potential beau, and what do we know about him?

Andrea Preti went from modelling to acting

Andrea Preti was born and brought up in Denmark before moving to Italy in his teens. According to his reportedly self-written IMDB bio, his career first took off when he started working as a model after his family introduced him to the fashion world in Italy. It was while he was pursuing modelling that he realised he wanted to become an actor. So he flew to New York and studied acting at the Susan Batson Academy.

Since then, Preti has worked on in films like Temptation (2023) and Girls to Buy (2021), as well as the TV series A Professor (2021).

He is a producer, writer and director

Preti is interested in more than just acting. He wrote, directed and starred in the 2015 film One More Day, and produced the 2018 film My Beloved Enemy. He also directed, wrote, and acted in The Wolf Man (2014), and wrote the action film Animals (2015).

Recently, Preti took fans behind the scenes of his film In Loving Memory (2015) on Instagram, and revealed that it was based on a story he wrote when he was 19 that “talks about love, about soul, and how beautiful it is to be able to love without borders”.

What are Andrea Preti’s hobbies?

If his Instagram grid is anything to go by, Preti enjoys free diving, scuba diving and meditation. Just recently, he posted a montage of a “family experience” on his Mister G2 boat, and can be seen expertly diving into the water. Preti clearly loves his water sports and calls himself Aquaman in his hashtags on Instagram, but he’s not just an adrenaline junkie. In May this year, he also shared pictures of himself meditating in Ibiza.

Venus Williams isn’t the first tennis star linked to Andrea Preti