Aryna Sabalenka (1st WTA) and Elena Rybakina (6th WTA) met on the court again a few weeks after the match at the WTA Finals (6:4, 3:6, 6:1 for Kazaszko), this time during the World Tennis show event League in Abu Dhabi.
Elena Rybakina played a crazy match with Aryna Sabalenka. But they write about something else
During the match, we also saw surprising pictures in the stands. “Oh my God, Stefano Vukov was at Rybakina's match on WTL… Like,” one fan noted on social media. Which caused some stir. “And what is this raisin doing there? Has he reconciled with Rybakina or is someone from ATP on the team?”, “Super strange” – we read on the X website.
The world's media also write about the case. “The reason for the Croatian coach's presence was not presented, but of course it was surprising because Rybakina ended her cooperation with him a few months ago,” we read on tennistemple.com.
“Vukov was present at the Rybakina team's match in WTL. He appeared in public for the first time since the scandal. […] He watched the match between Sokołów and Jastrzębie from the stands, including the match between Andrei Rublev and Jordan Thompson – this is a fragment of a text from the Russian website championat.com.
Stefano Vukov appeared at Yelena Rybakina's match. “When she won, he spat on her”
What scandal are the Russians writing about? Well, after the tennis player broke up with her coach, very disturbing voices began to appear. – When Rybakina won matches, he spit on her. This is what other people saw. There are at least 25 other people who saw the same thing as me, Rennae Stubbs revealed.
Even more shocking was the account of Russian journalist Sofia Tartakova. – I don't want to use harsh words, but his approach as her mentor was inappropriate. People who were around her say he constantly trampled on her, literally sucking everything out of her, she said. It is therefore not surprising that the fans were surprised when they saw a Croatian in the stands during the match of Rybakina, which is currently coached by Goran Ivanisevic.
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Kazaszka will return to the court on Friday, December 20. That day at 14:00 her team will play against Kania's team (Jasmine Paolini, Simona Halep, Casper Ruud, Nick Kyrgios).