The couple have kept their relationship out of the spotlight.
Key Takeaways
- Nelly Korda has been dating Andreas Athanasiou since 2019.
- Andreas is a professional hockey player playing for the Chicago Blackhawks in the NHL.
- The pair have been mostly quiet about their relationship.
Nelly Korda has emerged as one of golf’s most dominant forces, with 14 LPGA Tour victories, including two major championships.
Born in 1998 to former tennis champions Petr Korda and Regina Rajchrtová, she comes from an impressive athletic lineage.
Her father won the 1998 Australian Open in tennis, while her siblings have also achieved notable success – her sister Jessica plays on the LPGA Tour, and her brother Sebastian won the 2018 Australian Open junior tennis title.
Korda’s career reached new heights in 2024 when she accomplished something only two other players in LPGA history had done before winning five consecutive tournament starts.
This feat, previously achieved by only Annika Sörenstam and Nancy Lopez, was part of an extraordinary run where she won six tournaments in seven starts.
Her achievements include capturing Olympic gold in Tokyo, reaching World No. 1 multiple times, and securing the 2024 LPGA Tour Player of the Year award with three tournaments still remaining on the schedule.
Nelly Korda currently -15 and 1 shot back from the lead. Her partner & NHL player Andreas Athanasiou supporting Korda at the @cpwomensopen as she charges up the leaderboard. #lpga pic.twitter.com/7rJFDT2I6X
— Claire Hanna (@clahanna) August 28, 2022
Nelly Korda, currently the top-ranked female golfer in the world, has been dating professional ice hockey player Andreas Athanasiou since 2019.
Athanasiou currently plays as a center for the Chicago Blackhawks in the National Hockey League.
The couple first went public with their relationship in a 2019 Thanksgiving post.
Since then, they have maintained a mostly private relationship, occasionally featuring each other on social media and appearing at sporting events.
Athanasiou attended the 2021 Meijer LPGA Classic to cheer for his girlfriend, where Nelly went on to win the event.
Athanasiou, born on August 6, 1994, in Ontario, Canada, is of Greek and Guyanese descent.
Earlier in his amateur hockey career, he played for the Toronto Titans.
Despite being drafted by the Detroit Red Wings in 2012, with a round 4 pick and 110th overall, he made his NHL debut with the Red Wings in 2015 and has since played for the Edmonton Oilers and Los Angeles Kings before joining the Chicago Blackhawks.
Internationally, as part of the Canadian U-17 team, he won the gold medal at the 2011 World U-17 Hockey Challenge.
On this day in 2015, Andreas Athanasiou scored his first NHL goal #Hockey365 #LGRW pic.twitter.com/54l4LO6dcf
— Mike Commito (@mikecommito) November 10, 2024
In 2017, Andrew switched to veganism. He said in an interview,
There’s a couple personal reasons, but I thought it would be a good idea to try it out. I liked it, so kept rolling with it. You have to eat a little bit more, but it was pretty easy to go through it.
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Despite his professional life as an NHL player, he likes to keep his personal life away from the spotlight.
In this effort, he has made his Instagram account private.
In Case You Didn’t Know
- Nelly won the gold medal in women’s golf at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, making her the first American woman to win an Olympic gold medal in golf since the sport was reintroduced to the Olympics in 2016.
