Elena Rybakina, the Australian Open runner-up, has leapt to the defence of her coach, Stefano Vukov, amid a row over his courtside behaviour.An angry online exc
Anhelina Kalinina’s family home in Ukraine was destroyed in a Russian attack last year. Her elderly grandparents have had to relocate from the southern city of Nova Kakhovka which is held by Russian forces to Kyiv. Kalinina’s parents work as tennis coaches in Kyiv and she said there was a “huge, huge bomb…
In-match coaching has always happened on the sly, but this year is the first time the Australian Open has allowed players to be coached from the stands.
Elena Rybakina felt all of the nerves when she claimed her first grand slam at Wimbledon, succeeding Ash Barty. Now she has chance to do the same thing in Australia, those nerves are gone