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Jennifer Capriati ‘smacked’ ex-boyfriend during Valentine’s Day argument, he says

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Tennis great Jennifer Capriati may come to regret these alleged grand slams.

Florida cops are seeking an arrest warrant for Hall of Famer Capriati on charges that she launched a volley of punch¬es on an ex-boyfriend — after stalking him for a year.

Ivan Brannan, 28, told North Palm Beach police that Capriati, 36, hit his chest four times with a fist in a gym on Valentine’s Day.

Neither Capriati nor her lawyer returned calls for comment yesterday.

“Brannan attempted to get away from Capriati by walking to the men’s locker room,” the police report says.

“Capriati followed Brannan, cut him off from entering the locker room and in an angry manner stuck her finger in his chest. As the incident escalated, Capriati punched Brannan with a closed fist 4 times in his chest.”

Brannan’s story is backed up by two eyewitnesses, cops said.

Brannan also reported seven other incidents where Capriati stalked him in the year after their breakup, cops say.

And one of Brannan’s co-workers told police of an incident in January where Capriati pounded on the windows of Brannan’s office. The co-worker also said Capriati called the business up to 50 times a day.

Last September, Brannan lost a bid for an order of protection from Capriati, court records show.

Capriati took to Twitter to deny she’d done anything wrong. “I pushed a man that was verbally assaulting me away from me. This man has been tormenting and abusing me for so long. The truth will prevail,” she wrote on Friday night.

Capriati, a 1992 Olympic gold medalist and winner of three women’s singles championships in Grand Slam tournaments, ended her career in 2004 because of injuries.

Her history of legal woes includes arrests in 1993 and 1994 for shoplifting and marijuana possession.