After playing only two tournaments together, Rybakina and Goran Ivanisevic parted ways<\/a> following the Australian Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n Since then, Rybakina has been working with Davide Sanguinetti<\/a> who has big goals for his collaboration with the former Wimbledon<\/a> champion.<\/p>\n Rybakina<\/a> has won only one WTA<\/a> title so far in 2025, that came at the clay court tournament in Strasbourg.<\/p>\n As a result of her drop-off in form, Rybakina has fallen outside the top 10 of the WTA rankings.<\/p>\n However, Rybakina is now closing in on another trophy lift, as she is now in the semifinals of the Canadian Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n In a new interview with Italian broadcaster Super Tennis TV<\/a>, Sanguinetti explained that he is hoping to get Rybakina to world number six in the rankings by the end of this year.<\/p>\n Sanguinetti then revealed that he wants to take Rybakina to another level in 2026, and thinks she has the potential to become world number one.<\/p>\n \u201cAt the moment I\u2019m a sort of ferryman: I joined her team in February, without any work behind me,\u201d said Sanguinetti. <\/p>\n \u201cShe explained to me more or less what she had done, and I asked her for two years of collaboration because I have my own working method: in the first year I would like to maintain the status quo, maybe finish at number 6 in the rankings, and next year I would like to take her to number one in the world: she has all the potential.\u201d<\/p>\n Rybakina has a career-high ranking of world number three, and could return to the top 10 of the WTA rankings if she reaches the final of the Canadian Open.<\/p>\n Davide Sanguinetti explains what he finds different about coaching a WTA player<\/p>\n Sanguinetti has been a prolific coach on tour since 2008, and has mentored the likes of Vince Spadea, Go Soeda, Ryan Harrison, and most recently Brandon Nakashima.<\/p>\n Although the Italian also briefly worked with former world number one Dinara Safina<\/a>, he has much more experience working on the ATP Tour<\/a>.<\/p>\n When asked about the difference between coaching men\u2019s and women\u2019s players, Sanguinetti suggested that he needs to be more sensitive with players on the WTA Tour. <\/p>\n \u201cWe definitely need to be more sensitive to girls, who have different ways of interacting,\u201d claimed Sanguinetti. \u201cIt was new to me; I\u2019m learning and adapting.\u201d<\/p>\n Sanguinetti will now look to help Rybakina reach her first WTA level 1000 final since the Miami Open<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n Standing in the way of Rybakina is Canadian teenager Victoria Mboko, who is predicted to become a top five ranked player<\/a> herself.<\/p>\n However, Rybakina actually has a recent victory over Mboko<\/a> that came at the Washington Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The coach of Elena Rybakina is already making big plans for the 2026 season. Rybakina has been struck…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[45594,21338,99,428,654],"class_list":{"0":"post-61248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-davide-sanguinetti","9":"tag-elena-rybakina","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis","12":"tag-wta"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Davide](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2200034642-1024x606.jpg\")
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