Elina Svitolina and Gael Monfils are one of many largest energy {couples} in tennis proper now.
Svitolina and Monfils, the latter who is retiring this year, have been a pair since 2018, publicly confirming their relationship in 2019.
After a quick separation in 2021, Svitolina and Monfils obtained married later that yr and welcomed their daughter, Skai, in 2022.
Svitolina has made a really spectacular begin to the 2026 season, and after reaching the Indian Wells quarterfinals she was requested what travelling on tour with Monfils is like.
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Elina Svitolina says Gael Monfils has to protect extra power than her
Svitolina reached the Indian Wells quarterfinals after her opponent Katerina Siniakova retired within the second set of their match.
With the match ending in unconventional trend, Svitolina was requested about numerous subjects in her post-match press conference, together with about her husband Monfils.
When requested what she had learnt about Monfils after travelling on tour with him, Svitolina revealed that he spends lots of time inside to protect power for his matches.
“Interesting question. I would say, I don’t know, he’s [a] very chilled person,” responded Svitolina. “I think, you know, spending less time outside, you know, saving a little bit more energy.
“Of course, you know, he’s eight years older than me, so of course he preserves a lot of energy, more than me (smiling), and his game is more physical. So I think he kind of, you know, shared more of that to me.
“I don’t know, actually. I think it’s a good question for him also to ask what did he take away from me (smiling).”
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Elina Svitolina requires equal prize cash at Masters tournaments
Svitolina has been an expert tennis participant for 18 years now, and has been ranked as excessive as three on the earth.
The Ukrainian has seen lots of change in that point, and Svitolina was additionally requested if she thinks any extra may very well be performed to enhance equality between the ATP and WTA Tours.
Svitolina known as for equal prize cash for the ATP and WTA 1000 tournaments, to match the 4 Grand Slams.
“Well, I think [I] definitely want to see more equal prize money on the WTA tournaments, because of course in Grand Slams we are equal, but I think there is still a big gap between like 250s, 500s, and 1000s, so I think some tournaments of course made it, so I think [I] want to see more of that,” mentioned Svitolina.
“I think there are more things changed over the time when I started, it was years ago now, but yeah, I think we can see that, you know, there are people watching, like the views are great for women’s matches, semifinals, finals. So I think we also deserve a bit more on that.”
Indian Wells presents the identical quantity of prize cash for each women and men, however that isn’t the case for all tournaments at this degree.
At the Cincinnati Open final yr, champion Carlos Alcaraz acquired $1,124,380 in prize cash, whereas Iga Swiatek took residence simply $752,275, regardless of each enjoying the very same event within the best-of-three set format.
The WTA have dedicated to offering equal prize cash at mixed 1000 tournaments by 2027 in response to this.
