The U.S. Open is one of the biggest stages tennis has to offer. As such, it requires the utmost focus from players solely on the match at hand. That is, unless your significant other is playing on another court close by.
This is exactly what happened on Thursday to Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina and France’s Gaël Monfils, who have been married since 2021. Svitolina played first on Thursday, but her second-round match vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova went into three sets, forcing her to potentially miss the beginning of her husband’s match.
Monfils’s match was against No. 8-seeded Andrey Rublev, so Svitolina had to make sure she knew what was going on, even though she was competing to stay alive in the tournament herself.
