Svitolina keeps Monfils close despite quarantine

What’s that they say about absence making the heart grow fonder?

Elina Svitolina explored the paradox of creative limitation to hilarious effect as her TikToks keep coming through quarantine—and a mandated separation from boyfriend Gael Monfils.

Not even the Australian Open’s COVID-19 bubble can keep “g.e.m.s.” from shining as Svitolina took to her favorite platform to play the “This or That?” game with Monfils in absentia.

The world No. 5 ingeniously duck-taped a laptop—sporting various images of Monfils—to a pillow as the two chose between a slew of crucial ultimatums, like whether she can pull Monfils from his beloved Twitch streams.

Quarantine has only just begun for players in Australia and will last two weeks.