Details on Vukov’s Abuse Emerge in Report from WTA Chief

“Informed by a member of Rybakina’s workforce that he had been dismissed as her coach and to depart her alone, Vukov as an alternative walked the foyer and hallways of her Manhattan lodge. He flooded her telephone with textual content messages and greater than 100 calls — in response to sources with private {and professional} relationships with Rybakina who have been current on the lodge — as he sought one other probability to persuade Rybakina that her tennis profession couldn’t thrive with out him.”

Her three-page abstract additionally stated that Vukov had verbally abused Rybakina throughout their time collectively, calling her “silly” and “retarded” as saying that she could be “choosing potatoes” with out him.

In response to the Athletic, WTA chief Portia Archer had additionally change into involved that Vukov was staying in Rybakina’s lodge room in the course of the Australian Open, throughout a time that he was provisionally suspended and denied a credential into the match.

Archer’s three-page letter stated there was proof that they stayed in the identical lodge room in Melbourne for the Australian Open and that “there may be growing proof that you’re now concerned in a romantic relationship.”

Beneath are a number of the factors of Archer’s abstract of Vukov’s misdeeds, which led to the WTA Tour suspending Vukov for one 12 months on January thirty first, and ordering him to take lessons in applicable teaching habits.

“Participating in abuse of authority and abusive conduct in direction of the WTA Participant, together with compromising or trying to compromise the psychological, bodily or emotional well-being of the Participant; partaking in bodily and verbal abuse of the Participant; and, exploiting your relationship with the Participant for additional private and/or enterprise pursuits on the expense of the most effective curiosity of the Participant.”

Rybakina is presently being coached by Davide Sanguinetti, who’s presently in shut contact with Vukov. Vukov has till February twenty first to enchantment his suspension.