Rybakina Explains Her Choice Not to Pose with the WTA CEO

le 09/11/2025 à 13h47

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Portia Archer, the WTA Chairwoman, had to pose with Aryna Sabalenka alone during the trophy ceremony. Elena Rybakina chose to decline appearing in photos with her.

While many people associate this choice with the past suspension of her coach Stefano Vukov for inappropriate behavior, this question was put to the Kazakh player in a press conference.

A journalist asked her if she had had discussions with the WTA to clarify the situation and received a relatively evasive statement: "We had the opportunity to have conversations, but in the end it never happened, so we are all doing our job and I think we will continue like that."

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Rybakina Elena

5e, 5850 points

Sabalenka A • 1

Rybakina E • 6

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As we move to the end of this month and also closing out the year I am wishing all of those following me a Merry Christmas and a Happy/Healthy New Year.

Let's make that wish for all 2000 plus players hoping for 5 wins each day. Hoping ŵhen we open the results page to see all green, and no red. And especially NO CANCELED matches.

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I love tennis

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why did tennis tonic void predictions on the match between Chwalinska and Huergo at the Quito tournament? The match was played to completion and on time. If TT feels the match is one sided, and of course it was, then don't put it up for prediction. This is getting irritating.

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The finals are here, and we scramble for the best finish. I've been chasing "King" all year and I was able to shrink the spread a little. Skelp is also closing the gap.

Seasons best to all the regulars in our league.

Will you all be back in the new year.?

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Steffi Graf completed a Golden Slam (not just a career Grand Slam) when she was 19. She is the only person to accomplish that, winning the four majors plus Olympic gold the same calendar year.

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It has absolutely nothing to do with equality. It's all about equity of outcome. If it were totally fair logically all professional tennis players would get paid the same regardless of rank.

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