(Photo by Adrian DENNIS / AFP) The drama comes after Rybakina courted controversy ahead of the tournament when she wanted to bring former coach Stefano Vukov back into her team for the first grand ...

The Kazakh's former coach Stefano Vukov's reinstatement in her team has stirred a huge controversy in the tennis world and many fans have speculated about it being the reason why the Croat decided ...

Rybakina’s coaching situation is complicated: She announced right before last year’s U.S. Open that she no longer was working with her long-time coach, Stefano Vukov, and hired Ivanisevic ahead of ...

Following her exit from the 2025 Australian Open, Elena Rybakina addressed not having coach Stefano Vukov in her coaching box, and hinted at an uncertain future with new coach Goran Ivanisevic. The ...

His departure comes in the wake of Rybakina’s previous coach, Stefano Vukov, rejoining her team. On January 1, Rybakina announced on social media that Vukov would rejoin her team for the 2025 ...

Rybakina announced at the start of January that she wanted to bring her former coach Stefano Vukov back into the team - despite Vukov being provisionally banned by the WTA. Vukov, 37, has been ...

Rybakina hired Ivanisevic, who ended a five-year spell as Novak Djokovic's coach last year, for the 2025 season last November after she split with long-time mentor Stefano Vukov just days before ...

Rybakina, the 2022 Wimbledon champion, had brought on Ivanisevic—who famously coached Novak Djokovic to multiple titles—for the 2025 season after parting ways with her long-time coach, Stefano Vukov.

On the eve of the tournament, the WTA confirmed that it had suspended Rybakina’s former coach, Stefano Vukov, pending a code of conduct investigation. Vukov has been barred from coaching and ...

Elena Rybakina and former coach Stefano Vukov. Croatian-American WTA player Bernarda Pera has described the controversy involving Elena Rybakina and coach Stefano Vukov as “a completely strange story.