{"id":808186,"date":"2026-10-20T03:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/808186\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T03:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:04:13","slug":"tennis-news-2026-gael-monfils-and-elina-svitolina-split-instagram-post-tennis-stars-farewell-scrapped-after-separation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/808186\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis news 2026: Gael Monfils and Elina Svitolina split, Instagram post, Tennis star\u2019s farewell scrapped after separation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gael Monfils<\/a>\u2032 abrupt separation from fellow tennis<\/a> star Elina Svitolina<\/a> is reportedly the catalyst behind the French player\u2019s sudden departure from the sport.<\/p>\n

This wasn\u2019t the career finale Monfils had envisioned, any hopes for a final bow in front of a home crowd at the Paris Masters<\/a> have been dashed after the Frenchman removed himself from the sport\u2019s drug-whereabouts list. <\/p>\n

\"Ga\u00ebl<\/p>\n

Ga\u00ebl Monfils and Elina Svitolina has announced their separation. \u00a0Instagram<\/p>\n

The widely beloved French player was expected to end his career on October 31, but the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) confirmed that Monfils was added to their \u201cretired athletes\u201d list on October 5. <\/p>\n

The 40-year-old was suddenly removed from the sport\u2019s anti-doping protocols, which renders him ineligible to compete in any sanctioned tennis tournaments.<\/p>\n

The timing of his abrupt departure from the sport is reportedly linked to this period of major personal upheaval, according to French publication L\u2019Equipe. <\/p>\n

Monfils has been struggling to cope with the end of his marriage to Svitolina and ultimately abandoned his planned farewell events in Lyon and Paris.<\/p>\n

L\u2019Equipe also described the veteran player as an emotional individual who was deeply affected by this stressful situation, someone who makes rash decisions when emotionally affected. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Monfils learned of the news, it hit him like a ton of bricks, and tennis, which he had often experienced as a kind of gentle madness, suddenly lost all meaning,\u201d the L\u2019Equipe article reported. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe was no longer able to play.\u201d <\/p>\n

The divorce was announced on social media by Svitolina on Monday, with the sixth ranked Ukrainian writing that the split was the \u201cthe most difficult thing I have ever had to share.\u201d<\/p>\n

Svitolina outlined 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

\"\"<\/p>\n

Ga\u00ebl Monfils on the retired players list.\u00a0ITIA<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gael Monfils\u2032 abrupt separation from fellow tennis star Elina Svitolina is reportedly the catalyst behind the French player\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-808186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}