Aishwarya felicitates Gustavo Kuerten

  • IndiaGlitz, [Thursday,June 10 2010]

Gustavo Kuerten received the Longines Prize for Elegance award for his work in favour of disadvantaged children at a charity dinner organized by Longines with Stefanie Graf, Mary Pierce and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.

Aishwarya felicitated Gustavo with the award. Earlier this award was usually given away by Stefi Graf and Andre Agassi.

For the records, Gustavo Kuerten is a retired former World No. 1 tennis player from Brazil. He won the French Open three times between 1997 and 2001, and was the Tennis Masters Cup champion in 2000. After 12 years on the international tour, he retired from top-level tennis in May 2008.

During the occasion, Aishwarya had got the chance to dine with Florence Ollivier-Lamarque - General Director of Swatch Group France and Walter von Känel - President of Longines.