It is not unknown for Arina Rodionova to flirt with alternative career options. Never slow to speak out when occasion demands, the Australian tennis player memorably declared herself to be 'embarrassed' by her profession when some of her peers baulked at the prospect of a fortnight's Covid quarantine before the Australian Open.
Rodionova resisted the temptation to swap her racket for a rake and a mop on that occasion but, four years on, the world No appears to have discovered an equally unlikely new calling - as an Only Fans creator. Following her defeat to Germany's Eva Lys in the second round of the Australian Open qualifying competition last month, Rodionova revealed that she was launching a page on the adult-only online subscription platform.
Let's do this. As the tennis world averted its gaze, the profile of a player who last made headlines a year ago, when she became the oldest woman in WTA rankings history to break the top for the first time, soared to a degree rarely enjoyed by players outside the upper echelons of the game.
Yet Rodionova, who was born in the Russian region of Tambov, about miles south-east of Moscow , and acquired Australian citizenship in January , was not done. Arina Rodionova, a Russia-born Australian tennis player ranked in the world, has joined adults-only subscription platform OnlyFans. Rodionova, 35, right and her husband Ty Vickery, 34, announced their divorce in an Instagram video last week, following nine years of marriage. Speaking to her 25, social media followers, Rodionova said: 'Friends and family know but we just wanted to let the wider community know about this situation'.
Barely had her followers digested news of her latest venture before she dropped a second bombshell, announcing that her marriage to Ty Vickery , the former Australian rules footballer with whom she tied the knot in December , was at an end.
