(CNN) -- On a small tennis court in the Netherlands, love took center-stage. It had all the ingredients of a romantic fairytale -- the nervous suitor down on one knee in front of a crowd of strangers, hoping that months of planning would win the heart of the girl of his dreams. "I didn't cry once when I practiced it in front of the mirror, it was the nerves that kicked in when I went on the court," Martin Emmrich, a doubles specialist seeking to find his life partner, told CNN's Open Court show. "I was very afraid that I wouldn't find any words."
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Martin Emmrich proposed to his girlfriend on court at Dutch tournament
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Michaella Krajicek was able to make a new memory at venue where she had suffered in past
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The couple are partners in mixed doubles competitions
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