The pair met after four-time Grand Slam winner Sabalenka became an ambassador for Oakberry, an acai bowl company founded by Frangulis. The superfood brand has gone from strength-to-strength, allowing its owner to amass a fortune that even eclipses the eye-watering earnings of his tennis superstar partner.

The freedom to treat a mixed gender match as entertainment is not a step backward, but a hard-earned marker of progress for women.

Tennis star Aryna Sabalenka and businessman Georgios Frangulis are a couple with a nine-year age gap. Sabalenka, a top player, is younger than Frangul