{"id":8957,"date":"2025-01-04T04:43:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T04:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/elena-rybakinas-ex-coach-stefano-vukov-suspended-as-wta-investigation-continues\/"},"modified":"2025-01-04T04:43:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T04:43:36","slug":"elena-rybakinas-ex-coach-stefano-vukov-suspended-as-wta-investigation-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/elena-rybakinas-ex-coach-stefano-vukov-suspended-as-wta-investigation-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Elena Rybakina’s ex-coach Stefano Vukov suspended as WTA investigation continues"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Concerns have regularly been raised over the past few seasons about Vukov’s behaviour towards Rybakina.<\/p>\n

The manner in which he talks to her – on and off court at tournaments – has come under scrutiny, although it is not known exactly which part of the WTA’s Code of Conduct he is alleged to have broken.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, he told The Athletic – which first reported the story about his provisional ban – that he “never abused anyone”.<\/p>\n

Pam Shriver, a former Grand Slam doubles champion who coaches Wimbledon semi-finalist Donna Vekic, has been one of the most vocal critics of Vukov’s behaviour. <\/p>\n

During Rybakina’s run to the 2023 Australian Open final, Shriver urged the player to find a coach who “speaks and treats her with respect at all times”.<\/p>\n

In response, Rybakina refuted suggestions, external<\/span><\/a> Vukov had stepped over acceptable boundaries, calling them “disturbing” and “fake news”.<\/p>\n

When Rybakina announced she was re-employing Vukov, Shriver used social media, external<\/span><\/a> to call on the “entire sport to finally stand up to known abuse and cult-like manipulations of players”.<\/p>\n

Vukov began coaching Rybakina when she was a teenager, guiding her to become one of the WTA Tour’s leading players.<\/p>\n

The partnership ended before last year’s US Open and she appointed Goran Ivanisevic as her new coach.<\/p>\n

What her intention to bring back Vukov means for Ivanisevic, the 2001 Wimbledon champion who coached Novak Djokovic for many years, is unclear. <\/p>\n

Ivanisevic’s representatives confirmed to BBC Sport that he was working with Rybakina on a trial basis, which will be reviewed at the end of the Australian Open.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Concerns have regularly been raised over the past few seasons about Vukov’s behaviour towards Rybakina. The manner in which he talks to her – on and off court at tournaments – has come under scrutiny, although it is not known exactly which part of the WTA’s Code of Conduct he is alleged to have broken. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8959,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8957\/revisions\/8959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}