By Richard Pagliaro | @TennisNow | Tuesday, January 7, 2025
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A high-profile reunion will spark a simultaneous break up, ESPN analyst Rennae Stubbs predicts.
Final week, Elena Rybakina introduced her plan to reunite with former coach Stefano Vukov as assistant coach to her new coach, Goran Ivanisevic.
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In a Zoom name with the media right now to advertise ESPN’s Australian Open protection beginning on Sunday, Stubbs instructed Tennis Now if Vukov, who’s serving a WTA suspension that can deny him a credential for the Australian Open, does certainly return, then Coach Goran possible walks.
“I feel Goran, additionally being on the ladies’s aspect [is interesting], and he’s now having to deal now with this Rybakina state of affairs,” Stubbs instructed Tennis Now. “With the previous coach [coming back]. So I don’t know the way lengthy Goran’s gonna stick round if that state of affairs goes to happen.
“You understand I’m listening to rumblings and I doubt [Goran] goes to stay round if that’s the case. So we’ll see what occurs there.”
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After Rybakina’s announcement of Vukov’s return, The Athletic broke the information that Vukov is serving a provisional suspension that forestalls him from receiving a training credential for this month’s Australian Open.
Some coaches and commentators, together with Pam Shriver and Stubbs, have criticized Vukov for his remedy of Rybakina.
World No. 6 Rybakina mentioned Vukov has not mistreated her—and reiterated she’s not completely happy seeing vital feedback from different coaches.
“After all I am not likely proud of the state of affairs. I am not proud of the feedback which I see, particularly from the people who find themselves on the tour,” Rybakina instructed the media at United Cup in Sydney. “It is lively coaches, commentators. I do not suppose that it is honest.
“Yeah, however the one factor I can say is, like, he by no means mistreated me. I’ve respect to him for all the pieces he did from the very starting once I was 200 all the best way what we did, like, I do not know. You’ll be able to title me different coaches who had the identical success with gamers who’ve been 200 after which profitable Grand Slam and being within the high.”
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