After the couple were spotted sharing a kiss together at a recent tournament, one tennis fan is said to have sent a private message to Frangulis’wife Beh Armentano asking if Sabalenka had ‘disrupted her marriage’.
She reportedly replied: ‘I am married to Georgios but I will ask for a divorce. They’ve been having an affair since California’.
According to her Facebook page Armentano married Frangulis on October 1 2016.
In exchanges she describes him as ‘the love of my life. Meanwhile Frangulis has reportedly removed pictures of his wife from his own social media pages.
Frangulis is the founder of superfood brand Oakberry which sponsors American F1 team Haas.
It’s not clear when he first met Sabalenka but she too is linked to his brand after signing a two-year sponsorship deal in January – days before she successfully launched a bid to defend her Australian Open title.
Some fans expressed their shock that Sabalenka was making her new romance public so soon after the death of Koltsov after he fell 23 floors from the balcony of a five-star hotel in Miami on March 18.
Sabalenka – who is based in Miami – later revealed her four-year relationship with the former NFL star had ended before the tragedy happened.
She had faced a backlash when the romance began as Koltsov – a fellow Belarusian who represented his country in two Winter Olympics and was head coach of the national team – had enjoyed a lengthy marriage to estate agent and interior designer wife Julia Mikhailova.
Latvian-born Mikhailova was left heartbroken after Koltsov walked out of the family home when the youngest of their three children was still a toddler.
In an emotional Instagram message at the time of the split in April 2020, she posted a photograph of the couple sharing a kiss on a beach saying: ‘This will be the last photo with him on my Insta where we are together and where we were insanely happy!
Explaining why she had moved into a new apartment she said: ‘We broke up. It happens – and it hurts.’
In the message, which was pointedly marked for Sabalenka attention, she referenced how she had been left bringing up three children including a son who was less than a year old.
Mikhailova added: ‘And an appeal to all the girls who are hanging on other people’s husbands with children in the family! This is mean!
‘This is the most amazing and the happiest time, but at the same time the most difficult, because a small child takes a lot of energy, energy and time… Maybe someday you’ll be there too…’