Aryna Sabalenka: ‘My coronary heart is damaged,’ tennis star says after ex-boyfriend discovered useless | World Information

Tennis star Aryna Sabalenka has mentioned her “coronary heart is damaged” after the dying of her ex-boyfriend.

Konstantin Koltsov, 42, a Belarusian former skilled ice hockey participant, was discovered useless at a lodge in Miami, Florida, on Monday. He was within the metropolis to help Sabalenka within the Miami Open.

Police investigating the dying have mentioned it was an “obvious suicide” after they discovered no proof of “foul play”.

“Konstantin’s dying is an unthinkable tragedy, and whereas we have been now not collectively, my coronary heart is damaged,” Sabalenka, 25, wrote on Instagram.

“Please respect my privateness and his household’s privateness throughout this tough time.”

Sabalenka, who’s presently ranked world quantity two by the Girls’s Tennis Affiliation (WTA), is about to proceed taking part in regardless of Koltsov’s dying and can face an in depth buddy, Spaniard Paula Badosa, within the Miami Open on Friday.

Badosa admitted taking part in in opposition to the Belarusian can be “uncomfortable”.

In widely-quoted remarks, she mentioned: “She’s my greatest buddy and I do not need her to undergo. It is a very powerful state of affairs.”

Ex-wife says she doubts Koltsov took his personal life

Police in Miami-Dade confirmed on Tuesday they responded to a name at a Miami resort about reviews of a person leaping off a balcony.

However Koltsov’s ex-wife Yulia Mikhailova has mentioned she doubts he took his personal life and that “more than likely, he was very drunk” when he died.

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“Empty alcohol bottles have been discovered within the room the place Konstantin stayed,” she advised Belarusian information outlet Zerkalo. “There was a balcony overlooking the ocean. Most likely Konstantin didn’t maintain observe of his actions.”

Ms Mikhailova accused the media of creating a mistake, saying: “I feel it was your colleagues who misunderstood one thing. Or they handed off the police’s assumption of suicide as a reality.”

She mentioned there was nothing in her former husband’s behaviour to recommend suicidal ideas.

After accessing his electronic mail through an previous household pc, she mentioned she discovered he had booked residences in a unique location and was ready to obtain gadgets he had paid for and had “rented a automobile for a very long time”.

Although she admitted “proper now it’s unattainable to say for positive whether or not it was suicide or an accident,” she was adamant “he didn’t intend to die. Something, after all, can go to your head, however there was no signal of tragedy”.

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