{"id":330170,"date":"2025-08-09T09:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T09:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/330170\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T09:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T09:10:10","slug":"elena-rybakina-coach-has-ban-lifted-after-investigation-into-conduct-tennis-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/330170\/","title":{"rendered":"Elena Rybakina coach has ban lifted after investigation into conduct | Tennis | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stefano Vukov, the former coach of Elena Rybakina<\/a>, has had his suspension from coaching and attending professional tennis events lifted after a successful appeal. The WTA<\/a> provisionally suspended Vukov last year as an investigation into his behaviour commenced before Rybakina parted ways before the US Open<\/a> began in August.<\/p>\n

Shortly after the Grand Slam at Flushing Meadows, the WTA launched its investigation, which concluded after four months. Vukov received the one-year ban on January 31<\/a> when he was told the investigation had found “abuse of authority and abusive conduct” towards Rybakina. While suspended, he was denied access to stadiums, practice courts and player accommodations.<\/p>\n

The Croat was in Melbourne with Rybakina for this year’s Australian Open<\/a> but was not permitted to enter the courts or her box.<\/p>\n

Vukov, accused of breaching the WTA Tour’s code of conduct, appealed the one-year ban ahead of this summer’s French Open, which has been successful.<\/p>\n

A WTA statement read: “The WTA is fully committed to providing a safe and respectful environment for all athletes and other participants, as set out in our WTA Code of Conduct and Safeguarding Code.<\/p>\n

“Any sanctions issued following a breach of these safeguarding rules are carefully considered and are subject to appeal before an independent tribunal.<\/p>\n

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“While case details remain confidential, we can confirm that Mr. Vukov is eligible to receive credentials at WTA events. We will not be commenting further.”<\/p>\n

According to The Athletic<\/a>, Vukov entered into private arbitration with the WTA Tour as part of his appeal, which included a hearing before Wimbledon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In May, after winning the Strasbourg International, Rybakina thanked Vukov during her trophy presentation speech as well as her coach, Davide Sanguinetti.<\/p>\n

The Kazakhstani later confirmed that she had been working with Vukov between events, despite his ban from the Tour.<\/p>\n

That revelation came as little surprise, given that in February, Sanguinetti told Gazzetta dello Sport: “Vukov and Elena are close, he will always be there. Stefano and I are on the same wavelength.”<\/p>\n

In February, Rybakina insisted that she did not agree with the WTA’s decision to suspend Vukov, whom she had rehired after his sacking last year.<\/p>\n

Members of the 26-year-old’s team told WTA figures that they feared for her safety after Vukov’s reaction to that dismissal.<\/p>\n

He was said to have entered the lobby of Rybakina’s Manhattan hotel and spammed her with calls and messages to make her rehire him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stefano Vukov, the former coach of Elena Rybakina, has had his suspension from coaching and attending professional tennis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[8729,118704,118705,118707,8558,79,118703,118706,1068,31635,16,15,5067],"class_list":{"0":"post-330170","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-elena-rybakina","9":"tag-rybakina-coach","10":"tag-rybakina-coach-ban","11":"tag-rybakina-coach-conduct","12":"tag-sport-section","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-stefano-vukov","15":"tag-stefano-vukov-ban","16":"tag-tennis","17":"tag-tennis-section","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-us-open"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114998032650225393","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}