After getting married, Elina Svitolina has changed her last name to Monfils, but the Ukrainian WTA player has clarified that she’ll continue to use her maiden name for the rest of her professional tennis career.
Just before the Tokyo Olympics, the world No.6 Svitolina tied the knot with ATP star Gael Monfils in a lavender-themed wedding ceremony in Switzerland on July 16. The 26-year-old took her husband’s last name and updated her Twitter and Instagram profiles to “Elina Monfils”. However, when she saw that some livescore websites were referring to her as “Elina Monfils” while reporting about her Olympic results, the newlywed clarified the situation:
I don’t know why they changed my surname.