Olympics-Tennis-Honeymoon has to wait! Newlywed Svitolina back on court


  • Tennis
  • Wednesday, 21 Jul 2021

FILE PHOTO: 2016 Rio Olympics - Tennis - Preliminary - Women's Singles Third Round - Olympic Tennis Centre - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 09/08/2016. Elina Svitolina (UKR) of Ukraine celebrates after winning her match against Serena Williams (USA) of USA. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo

TOKYO (Reuters) - Few athletes would have had a more eventful buildup to the Tokyo Olympics than Ukrainian Elina Svitolina and Gael Monfils of France.

Tennis' latest power couple got married on Friday but the honeymoon has had to wait as two days later they boarded the flight to Tokyo to participate in the Games.

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