Then matters got complicated when she decided to let Vukov come to Australia – only to learn that he was being investigated for a breach of the WTA Tour’s Code of Conduct and had been provisionally suspended.
“I always said that he never mistreated me,” Rybakina said prior to his year’s Australian Open. During that same press conference, Rybakina added that, “As I said, I’m not happy with the whole situation, especially when still some coaches are making some comments, and the people who are not so close to the tennis world, they just see the comments and then they’re picking it up, make even more show out of this. I don’t think it’s fair, too.”
A vexed Ivanisevic nearly stopped working with Rybakina in early January. But he agreed to work with her during the Australian Open. Soon after Rybakina’s three-set round of 16 loss to Madison Keys, the two parted ways. At this stage, Rybakina’s world is less amusement park, more soap opera.
