Rybakina moved from the Dynamo Sports Club to the Spartak Tennis Club, where she had several accomplished coaches.
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Elena Andreyevna Rybakina is a Kazakhstani professional tennis player. Rybakina was born on 17 June 1999 in Moscow, Russia. She started playing sports with her older sister from a very young age, originally focusing on gymnastics and ice skating. Upon being told that she was too tall to become a professional in either of those sports, her father suggested she switch to tennis instead because of his interest in the sport. Rybakina began playing tennis at the age of six. She also only played tennis about two hours per day and trained in fitness for three hours a day. Her time for tennis was limited in part because she attended a regular high school not specialized for athletes and needed to balance tennis with schoolwork.
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Rybakina moved from the Dynamo Sports Club to the Spartak Tennis Club, where she had several accomplished coaches. She trained with former top-10 player Andrey Chesnokov and former top-100 player Evgenia Kulikovskaya. One of her fitness coaches was Irina Kiseleva, a World Championship gold medalist in the modern pentathlon. She is the reigning champion at Wimbledon and the first Kazakhstani player to win a major title. She is also the first to be ranked in the world’s top 15, with a career-high ranking of No. 12 by the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA), and the current Kazakhstani No. 1 player in women’s singles. Rybakina has reached eight other finals on the WTA Tour, including three at the WTA 500 level, winning two titles.
Croatian tennis coach and ex-player Stefano Vukov is the coach of Elena Rybakina, a member of the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA), since 2019. Vukov was born in 1987 in the Croatian city of Rijeka to a dentist mother and a software engineer father. He began playing tennis at the age of 12, but because his family placed a high value on education, he graduated from college while keeping his eye on the tennis pros. In 2007, Vukov achieved a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) ranking of No. 1122. He primarily competed on the ITF Futures Circuit and retired from tennis in 2009. A few years later, he started working with future WTA Tour players while working as a professional coach for girls at a tennis facility in Florida.
The WTA’s top 200-ranked Elena Rybakina hired Vukov in February 2019 to take the place of Moscow-based coach Andrei Chesnokov as her first travelling coach. Rybakina credited Vukov, who was recognised for his analytic prowess, with aiding in the improvement of her game; by the start of the following year, she had broken into the top 30 and won her first two WTA Tour titles. Following a two-year wager to get a tattoo of Rybakina’s name if she ever won Wimbledon, Vukov finally carried out his plan after Rybakina won her first major championship at the 2022 Wimbledon Championships.
