her split from husband Gael Monfils, Svitolina said today.<\/a><\/p>\nThe popular couple stunned the tennis world yesterday as Svitolina announced the end of their five-year marriage on social media. That announcement also prompted wide-spread speculation on causes that ended the beloved couple\u2019s love story.<\/p>\n
Today, Svitolina clarified the cause for the couple\u2019s split.<\/p>\n
Former world No. 3 Svitolina said Russia\u2019s unprovoked attack on her home country of Ukraine four-and-a-half years ago prompted her to re-examine her life. Svitolina said she had an epiphany: \u201cI didn\u2019t want to keep living a life where I wasn\u2019t truly happy.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you\u2019ve been living through the reality of war for more than 4.5 years, experiencing so many different situations, emotions, and difficult moments, you naturally start seeing life differently,\u201d Svitolina posted on Instagram today. \u201cYour perspective changes, your values and priorities shift, and you begin to understand what you truly want out of life.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt some point, I simply realized that I didn\u2019t want to keep living a life where I wasn\u2019t truly happy. And believe me, coming to this decision was anything but easy.\u201d <\/p>\n
Svitolina and Monfils were together as a couple for about seven years. The pair got engaged on April 3rd, 2021 and wed in a lavender-colored wedding ceremony on July 16th, 2021. Svitolina gave birth to the couple\u2019s daughter, Skai, on October 15th, 2022.<\/p>\n
Today, the 32-year-old Ukrainian suggested she wrote a follow-up post after reading some on social media speculate infidelity may have contributed to the break-up. <\/p>\n
Svitolina reiterated her love for Monfils and noted it\u2019s not always possible to provide all of the personal details of a painful split.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love and respect my husband very much. And I will always love and appreciate him for the person he is,\u201d Svitolina posted on Instagram. \u201cThat\u2019s exactly why it was so important for me to be honest, both with him and with myself.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not always possible to explain everything behind such personal and difficult decisions in a single post. And honestly, some things are simply too personal to share publicly. That was and is my view on announcing the end of our marriage but as some of you saw, Gael\u2019s career ended abruptly after he made the decision to stop based on our situation. Unfortunately he had many accusations thrown at him and he didn\u2019t deserve that, so we jointly released a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just hope this helps you understand a little better what I was trying to say but please be kind and understanding, this is incredibly tough for us both right now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daily Fuzz Elina Svitolina clarifies cause for split from husband Gael Monfils. Richard PagliaroOctober 20, 20263 minute read…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":940359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-940358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/940359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}