Elina Svitolina confirms that divorce led Gaël Monfils to end tennis career earlier than planned

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Elina Svitolina has confirmed that Gaël Monfils ended his tennis career prematurely because of the circumstances surrounding the breakdown of their marriage. The Frenchman, 40, had planned to retire at November’s Paris Masters but was registered as retired by the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) on October 5, bringing an early end to his 22-year career. Svitolina’s comments, in a new social media post on Tuesday, came a day after she announced the end of their five-year marriage in a