Maria Kirilenko says she ended her engagement to Alex Ovechkin

Russian tennis star Maria Kirilenko just boarded her hockey-playing fiance. Kirilenko called off her engagement to Russian NHLer Alex Ovechkin on Monday after the two were set to tie the knot. Ovechkin asked Kirilenko for her hand in marriage on New 

This morning, R-Sport announced that Alex Ovechkin and Maria Kirilenko have parted ways and ended their engagement. Kirilenko gave an official statement and retweeted R-Sport's article on Twitter around 10:30 AM.

Another sports power couple's engagement is off. Two months after golfer Rory McIlroy broke off his engagement to Danish tennis star Caroline Wozniacki, Russian tennis player Maria Kirilenko says she has called off her planned wedding to three-time NHL 

On its face, the statement by Russian tennis pro Maria Kirilenko announcing that she had broken off her engagement to Caps star Alex Ovechkin appeared magnanimous. But do we detect a note of vitriol-by-omission in the quote she gave to the press

Russian lovebirds Maria Kirilenko and her hockey superstar fiancé, Alex Ovechkin of the NHL's Washington Capitals, are no more. According to this news report, which cites the Russian Tennis Federation and an official release from Kirilenko's camp (and