Gael Monfils and Elina Svitolina have been dating for a bit more than 9 months and it seems that their relationship is also helping their tennis besides their online following.
In fact, Gael and Elina are becoming more and more well-known to the general public especially after they decided to make their relation “public” after they opened a joined account on Instagram called GEMS Life.
Monfils and Svitolina training together
Gael and Elina do not miss the chance to train together whenever they can in order to have some fun. However, the Ukrainian revealed that hitting with her boyfriend has also been helping her to comment:
“For me, I think hitting with him it’s definitely helped me to improve my reaction and my footwork, move really quickly because his ball is very flat. Flat, like, it’s very heavy from his racquet. Maybe from the side, it doesn’t look like that, but definitely there is lots of power on it.
But I’m practicing with him, and then also I’m taking time with my coach doing some specific drills because if I’m always practicing in defense, that’s not so good either. I try to keep the balance, and that’s been working good so far, you know.”
Elina will face Johanna Konta in the quarters on Tuesday. The head to head is 3-0 for the Ukrainian.
Monfils at the U.S. Open, ranking, and results in 2019
Ranked no.13, Gael has a 29-11 win-loss record in 2019. Monfils is currently having a run at the U.S. Open where he bested Albert Ramos-Vinolas 7-62 6-4 6-3, Marius Copil 6-3 6-2 6-2 and Denis Shapovalov 6-75 7-64 6-4 6-76 6-3.
The French Player will take on Andujar in the 4th round. The head to head is 3-0 for Monfils.
The last time that they played each other, Monfils won 7-5 6-4 in the semifinal in Nice in May 2013.
The French Player clinched 1 title in 2019 in Rotterdam.
Monfils won 8 titles in his career: 2 on hard courts, 1 on clay courts and 5 on indoor courts. (See the list of his titles)
