More shocking details have emerged about Stefano Vukov\u2019s behaviour towards Elena Rybakina, which prompted the WTA to ban the Croatian coach.<\/p>\n
Concerning incidents of Vukov\u2019s conduct towards Rybakina<\/a> first made headlines at the 2024 Australian Open as he was seen shouting at her several times during matches.<\/p>\n The 2022 Wimbledon winner publicly defended her mentor, but she missed several tournaments over the next few months due to illness and injury.<\/p>\n Then on the eve of the US Open, they dropped a bombshell as Rybakina announced she had parted ways with Vukov \u2013 who had been her coach since 2019 \u2013 and not long after the WTA announced they would be launching an investigation into the Croatian\u2019s behaviour.<\/p>\n Former world No 2 Goran Ivanisevic then joined Rybakina\u2019s staff during the off-season, but Vukov returned to the fray for the Australian Open and Ivanisevic announced his departure not long after.<\/p>\n The WTA\u2019s inquiry was concluded recently and it was confirmed that Vukov would be banned for one year with several disturbing details revealed in the initial report by The Athletic.<\/p>\n Vukov is said to have called the tennis player \u201cstupid\u201d and \u201cretarded\u201d while he also stated she would still be in Russia \u201cpicking potatoes\u201d without him.<\/p>\n Elena Rybakina opens up about friends on tour as she addresses support over Stefano Vukov ban<\/a><\/p>\n Andy Roddick lambasts Elena Rybakina\u2019s \u2018selfish, circus show\u2019 coach Stefano Vukov after ban<\/a><\/p>\n But the publication has since released more information about events leading up to last year\u2019s US Open after Rubakina parted ways with him.<\/p>\n It is reported that: \u201cTold by a member of Rybakina\u2019s team that he had been dismissed as her coach and to leave her alone, Vukov instead walked the lobby and hallways of her Manhattan hotel. He flooded her phone with text messages and more than 100 calls \u2014 according to sources with personal and professional relationships with Rybakina who were present at the hotel \u2014 as he sought another chance to convince Rybakina that her tennis career could not thrive without him.\u201d<\/p>\n Several members of Rybakinas\u2019s inner circle stated their concerns to WTA officials about the player as \u201cthey feared for the safety of the 2022 Wimbledon champion\u201d.<\/p>\n A letter from WTA chief executive Portia Archer stated that she \u201calso received an email from Rybakina\u2019s mother requesting that he not make her daughter cry, and refused to coach her at one event as a result. The investigation also concluded that Vukov had violated the WTA\u2019s no-contact directive, with Archer writing that he continued to \u2018brazenly defy it even as this letter is penned\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n The 37-year-old Vukov maintains that he hasn\u2019t done anything wrong, but is yet to confirm if he will appeal against the ban.<\/p>\n The Athletic report claims that the relationship between coach and player \u201chad become personal and romantic\u201d as \u201cArcher\u2019s letter also noted the shift in their relationship. It said there was evidence that they stayed in the same hotel room in Melbourne for the Australian Open and that \u2018there is increasing evidence that you are now involved in a romantic relationship\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n Rybakina is yet to comment on the latest revelations as she previously just stated: \u201cI\u2019m just disappointed with the situation and how the process went. I\u2019m not going to comment much on that any more.\u201d<\/p>\n The post Elena Rybakina and Stefano Vukov saga: Wimbledon champion\u2019s mother asked \u2018that he not make her daughter cry\u2019<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" More shocking details have emerged about Stefano Vukov\u2019s behaviour towards Elena Rybakina, which prompted the WTA to ban the Croatian coach. Concerning incidents of Vukov\u2019s conduct towards Rybakina first made headlines at the 2024 Australian Open as he was seen shouting at her several times during matches. The 2022 Wimbledon winner publicly defended her mentor, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Elena Rybakina News<\/h3>\n