Tennis star Sloane Stephens and her husband, Jozy Altidore, have known as it quits after 4 years of marriage.
“Jozy and I’ve determined to finish our marriage,” Stephens, 32, wrote by way of her Instagram Tales on Saturday, February 21. “With peace, I’m navigating this transition with mutual respect and kindly ask for privateness throughout this time.”
She continued, “Thanks in your love, understanding and continued help.”
Altidore, 36, has not publicly addressed the pair’s breakup. Us Weekly has reached out to a rep for the retired soccer star for remark.
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Stephens and Altidore had been collectively since 2016once they reconnected years after attending the identical faculty in Florida collectively.
“I used to be doing a media scrum within the hallway throughout a US Males’s Nationwide staff camp,” Altidore instructed Vogue in 2022. “Sloane was there coaching for Fed Cup in Hawaii. Sloane turned the nook whereas having a loud dialog on FaceTime. We locked eyes and began speaking in the course of the scrum. We exchanged contacts and went to dinner after my recreation versus Iceland. The remaining was historical past.”
Altidore popped the query in 2019 after 4 years of courting.
“Jozy was appearing nervous, and he’s positively not an artwork gallery sort of man,” Stephens recalled to Vogue. “After we walked in and I noticed everybody, I used to be utterly blown away. It was so surreal when he bought down on one knee.”
Stephens and Altidore exchanged vows on New 12 months’s Day in 2022 on the St. Regis in Bal Harbour, Florida.
“I actually appreciated the symbolism of beginning a brand new 12 months utterly contemporary with a brand new starting,” she instructed the outlet on the time. “I fly to Australia to begin my season quickly, so that is what wanted to occur.”
Stephens continued, “Our coaching and season schedules are so intense that planning a marriage appeared like a logistical nightmare, however the pandemic actually shifted every thing for us. The final two years have been extremely robust for everybody, together with my household with the lack of my grandparents and shut household pals attributable to COVID-19, and it reminded us how nothing is assured, so we have now to have fun and cherish the time we have now collectively.”
Altidore later opened up about how their marriage affected his personal athletic profession.
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“I’m a free agent proper now, so I’m in a little bit of an unknown space,” Altidore stated on CBS Sports activities’ “Kickin’ It” collection in October 2023. “I simply assume (selecting a staff) has to make sense for me at this level in my life. Loads goes into it now (with) going the household over. Earlier than it was simply me, choose up and go.”
The soccer participant, who retired later in 2023, additional revealed how marriage modified his life.
“She’s executed quite a lot of good issues for me,” Altidore stated. “We met up in 2016, reupped once more and had quite a lot of good years collectively on the sphere, off the sphere. It’s been cool having someone like that (who’s) all the time on it, makes it’s a must to be all the time on it and alter your mindset every single day. (It’s) positively been a plus to have.”