{"id":54280,"date":"2025-08-09T01:34:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T01:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/54280\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T01:34:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T01:34:06","slug":"elena-rybakinas-coach-stefano-vukov-cleared-to-return-from-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/54280\/","title":{"rendered":"Elena Rybakina’s coach Stefano Vukov cleared to return from suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"

The coach of 2022 Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina has been cleared by the WTA Tour to return from his suspension for a potential breach of its code of conduct.<\/p>\n

Stefano Vukov was provisionally suspended in January while the WTA conducted an investigation.<\/p>\n

The WTA announced in February the investigation had been completed and the ban remained in place<\/a>, without specifying how long it would last.<\/p>\n

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Vukov is now permitted to receive credentials allowing him access to player areas and practice courts at its events.<\/p>\n

“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,” the tour said in a statement.<\/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

“While case details remain confidential, we can confirm that Mr Vukov is eligible to receive credentials at WTA events.”<\/p>\n

Rybakina announced before last year’s US Open that Vukov would no longer be her coach.<\/p>\n

But prior to this year’s Australian Open, Rybakina said he would be rejoining her team.<\/p>\n

She insisted he had never mistreated her during their time working together.<\/p>\n

Rybakina, ranked number 10 on the WTA Tour, most recently reached the semifinals in Montreal before losing to Canadian teenager Victoria Mboko, the eventual champion.<\/p>\n

AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The coach of 2022 Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina has been cleared by the WTA Tour to return from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,17652,3181,20336,85,45131,26605,747,749,26599],"class_list":["post-54280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-ban","tag-coach","tag-elena-rybakina","tag-sports","tag-stefano-vukov","tag-suspension","tag-tennis","tag-wimbledon","tag-wta-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}