Honeymoon over for Rio stars

File photo of Serbia's Ana Ivanovic. [Photo/Agencies]

Ivanovic will be hoping for a better start to married life on the court than Schweinsteiger, who had his locker in United's first-team dressing room cleared out and was ordered to train with the reserves by new boss Jose Mourinho on his 32nd birthday on Monday.

Bulgaria's world No 76 Pironkova married her long-time boyfriend Mihail Mirchev, a former Bulgarian soccer, also in July.

Pironkova is one of two Bulgarians in the Olympic tennis event alongside Grigor Dimitrov in the men's singles.

Unlike social media savvy Ivanovic, the private Pironkova made no mention of her nuptials on either her Twitter feed or Facebook page.

Meanwhile, fiery Italian Fognini also arrives in Rio as a newlywed.

Fognini, who famously dumped Rafael Nadal out of the US Open in five sets last year, married girlfriend Flavia Pennetta in June.

Pennetta won her only Grand Slam title in New York in 2015 and promptly announced her retirement.

"More than yesterday, less than tomorrow," gushed Fognini beside a photo of him and Pennetta sitting in their wedding car.

World No 11 Dominika Cibulkova would have been another newlywed at the Games before injury intervened.

The 27-year-old married Miso Navara in Bratislava on the day of the women's singles final at Wimbledon. But she had been prepared to cancel her big day when she defied her own doubts to make the quarterfinals.

Cibulkova eventually lost to Russia's Elena Vesnina - who tied the knot herself in November last year - on the Tuesday before the final, leaving her just over three days to make it back to Slovakia and put the final touches on her big day.

"I can finally start to think about the wedding. I'm really looking forward to it," said Cibulkova, who was forced out of the Olympics on Monday with a calf injury.