The famous Ukrainian tennis player Katarina Zavatskaya broke up with her Russian groom. The fact that she and Alain Avidzba are no longer together, the athlete from Lutsk reported after the national team to the final round of the Billy King Cup.
On Saturday, Katarina played in a paired match against Switzerland and won tandem with the hope of Kichelok. And the next day, unexpectedly for many, she talked about a change in her status.
" Thank you for everything. Our fairy tale has come to an end, ”wrote a 25-year-old tennis player on Instagram after almost eight years of relationship with Alena.
Katarina met a future groom in 2012 in the popular French tennis Academy All Inn, located near the city of Nice. For the first time, they went out to the courts of the Cote d'Azur. And in 2017, athletes began to meet. True, they officially announced their relationship only three years later.
And then for the couple the tests began, because at the place of birth the lovers were on different sides of the barricades. After all, Zavatskaya was born in Lutsk, and took her first steps in tennis in Rivne-in the regional specialized children and youth sports school of the Olympic Reserve. And gradually went to the Ukrainian national team, having nine titles of ITF levels behind and 103 line in the world ranking in February 2020.
As for Alena, he was born in Sochi on February 24, 2000. His tennis career started with a victory in the Junior Christmas Cup tournament and the bronze award of the world championship. At an adult level, Alain won the ITF Futures in Toulouse, and in 2021 he received his only title at the ITF level.
In the main grid of ATP, the Russian debuted in 2019 at the Kremlin Cup, but only reached the second circle, where he lost to Serb Nikolai Milovich. The best result of the Avidzba in the ATP ranking in a solitary category was 380 place. However, after October 2021, a native of Sochi did not participate in tournaments due to health problems. And later became a coach.
In 2022, Avidzba was silent for a long time about the invasion of the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine, but in May of that year he published a post with a call to the world. And in December 2023 it became known that, despite the war between their countries, the lovers were engaged on the tropical island.
" I just accepted his proposal. We are already 6.5 years old, so for me this is normal. If people think that I am worried about the fact that all the tabloids flew around the news, that I am not engaged in a Ukrainian, then this is not so, ”said Zavatskaya in a conversation with the“ іnformer ”.
" And not for nationality, not for a passport or something else. There is nothing else for me here but love. And how society reacts to this, I do not concern me. I do what I consider necessary for myself, ”the athlete added.
Zavatskaya also noted that Alena does not think a Russian. Like, its roots from Abkhazia, which, in fact, occupied the Russian Federation. And at home they talk about the war that goes in Ukraine.
" He, like me, is going through these difficult times. Worried how my family is like me.
He communicates with my parents and grandmother, we have no problem. I did, I would not accept the proposal, ”Katarina noted.
" Alain - from Abkhazia. Many say: " But he is not a Russian, he is from Abkhazia, this is a small and at the same time a large detail, which for some reason is forgotten, ”Zavatskaya emphasized.
The couple continued to live on azure. It seemed that the wedding would be held soon, but a year and a half after the offer, Katarina announced the breakdown of relations with the Russian.