{"id":934191,"date":"2026-10-19T21:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T21:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/934191\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T21:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T21:40:14","slug":"tennis-news-2026-gael-monfils-and-elina-svitolina-split-instagram-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/934191\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis news 2026: Gael Monfils and Elina Svitolina split, Instagram post"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elina Svitolina<\/a> announced on Monday the end of her marriage with fellow tennis player Gael Monfils<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The sixth-ranked Ukrainian said in an Instagram post it is \u201cthe most difficult thing I have ever had to share.\u201d<\/p>\n

Svitolina spoke about the tough emotional impact the war in her country had on her well-being, and how Monfils supported her to cope with the struggle when she took a break from tennis to recover.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut some battles happen deep inside you, and no amount of love from someone else can win them for you,\u201d she wrote. <\/p>\n

\u201cWith time, I came to understand that I need to find my way back to myself and that I cannot do that within our marriage.\u201d<\/p>\n

Monfils and Svitolina have a daughter together.<\/p>\n

\u201cTogether, we built a beautiful life, and we were given the most precious gift of all, our daughter, Skai,\u201d Svitolina said. <\/p>\n

\u201cSkai will always come first. Our marriage is ending, but our family is not. We will always be her parents, side by side, at every step of her life.\u201d<\/p>\n

The end of their marriage might have played a role in Monfils’ decision to end his career a little earlier than what was expected.<\/p>\n

The 40-year-old Monfils, who had planned to retire at the end of the season, is being listed by the sport\u2019s drug-testing organisation among the players who have declared themselves retired, with his career officially over from October 5<\/p>\n

The former No. 6-ranked player was widely expected to end his career in front of his home fans at the Paris Masters from October 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elina Svitolina announced on Monday the end of her marriage with fellow tennis player Gael Monfils. The sixth-ranked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":934192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,85],"class_list":["post-934191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}