Elena Rybakina has commented on the termination of the provisional suspension of her former coach Stefano Vukov by the WTA, in which the participant of her story declared not being part of any of the accusations against Vukov.
The recent change has been when U.S. Open champion who ended her relationship with Vukov in August, then brief stint with Goran Ivanisevic, is now on board again, replacing Vukov in the team of coaches. When writing, the WTA initiated an inquiry into Vukov for possible Vukov code of conduct transgression and is currently placing on hold all credentials that may be conferred to him.
Despite the fact that Vukov continues to claim that he has never been violent (The Athletic, v.s., Rybakina has gone on record to question how much the WTA has so far tackled the issue).
“I don’t agree with a lot of things the WTA do in the sense of my relationship with Stefano,” Rybakina stated before the Australian Open. “I have never made any complaints or any of these things. I always said that he never mistreated me.”
The Kazakhstani tennis player, who “is hoping to concentrate on the next tournament,” has expressed disappointment in reaction to what happened, to the professional tennis community.
I’m not pleased with how the whole thing unfolded, especially when coaches are still uttering remarks and people who are not closely associated with the tennis world are somehow witnessing, and picking up those remarks, and giving them more and more hype about it,” she explained. “I don’t think it’s fair. However, as I have mentioned in order to arrive at the score. This is what I’m going to do.”
Although the peak of Rybakina’s career coincided with the support of Vukov coaching, the Wimbledon victory in 2022 she did not share his status as member of the coaching staff. The 2024 season will be contested from the first round between the Australian Open 2023 finalist against an Australian player, Emerson Jones.
I’m not really interested in talking about this anymore. Right now I’m concentrating on these games” she said
