Svitolina explains she is practicing crazy shots with boyfriend Gael Monfils

Svitolina and Monfils during practice

Elina Svitolina is currently in the final in Shenzhen where she has the opportunity of defending her title at the season’s finale.

The Ukrainian is currently undefeated so as the opportunity of winning a mind-blowing and record-making $ 4.7 mil prize money if she wins the final in Shenzhen against Ashleigh Barty.

Doing crazy shots like her boyfriend Monfils

Elina and Gael Monfils practice together as much as they can and they love trying crazy stuff. The world no.8 did strike an amazing winning slice against Simona Halep. Later she explained that she used to slice a lot back in the days and she also tries these weird shots while practicing with Monfils. She revealed:

“I think many people were surprised; even myself because I played it that well. I actually played many more of these shots when I was growing up. I was doing lots of slicing. It was actually working a lot for me, but my coach at that time really hated that shot. But as you saw here, it brought me a point, a very important one, and surprised the opponent. You never know. It might help me in the future, too.”

Talking about when she tried that shot last time, she added: “Maybe in practice with Gael. He does so much crazy stuff in practice.”

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Svitolina in Shenzhen, ranking, and results in 2019

Elina Svitolina Stats info

Ranked no.8, Svitolina has a 39-21 win-loss record in 2019. Elina is now playing in Shenzhen where she bested Karolina Pliskova 7-612 6-4, Simona Halep 7-5 6-3, Sofia Kenin 7-5 7-610 and Belinda Bencic 5-7 6-3 4-1 ret..

Elina will come up against Barty in the final. The head to head is 5-0 for Svitolina.

The last time that they locked horns, Svitolina won 7-68 5-7 6-4 in the 4th round in Indian Wells on the 12th March 2019.

Svitolina won 13 titles in her career: 7 on hard courts, 4 on clay courts and 2 on indoor courts. (See the list of her titles)

Gael Monfils’s ranking and performance in 2019

Gael Monfils Stats info

Ranked no.13, the French Player played his last match on the 1st of November when he capitulated to Denis Shapovalov 6-2 6-2 in the quarter in Paris.

This year Gael has a 37-18 win-loss record. The French Player clinched 1 title in Rotterdam.