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Reigning Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova has revealed she broke up with her husband of two years, just months after he celebrated her triumph on Centre Court.
The 24-year-old married Stepan Simek, two years her senior a former junior tennis player, in July 2022 after a one-year engagement.
Simek, whose promising tennis career was ended by an injury, and Vondrousova had known each since they were teenager.
The two began dating in 2016 before Simek, an IT manager in Czech Republic, proposed in August 2021, shortly after Vondrousova won silver at the Tokyo Olympics.
The couple were married a year later, but their marriage has hit the rocks and the Wimbledon champion revealed her husband had moved out, taking her beloved cat with him.
Marketa Vondrousova has revealed she broke up with her husband Stepan Simek just nine months after he celebrated her Wimbledon triumph
Vondrousova's husband stayed home in Prague during her Wimbledon run last year to look after their cat called Frankie (right)
Vondrousova became the first unseeded ladies' singles Wimbledon champion last year
'I'm definitely not having a happy time in the last few weeks,' the world No 7 told Czech news outlet Blesk.
'Our marriage with Stepan ended a few weeks ago, we broke up. He moved out of with the cat.
'It just didn't work out for us. It wasn't what we both imagined, so we agreed not to be together anymore. Now we are formally resolving the divorce, but we have agreed on everything.'
Simek made the headlines last summer, when he missed his wife's impressive Wimbledon run while looking after Frankie, their sphynx cat, back in Prague.
The 26-year-old was present for Vondrousova's maiden Grand Slam final in 2019 when
