Over a tumultuous two days in New York in August, in the lead-up to last year’s U.S. Open, Stefano Vukov tried to convince Elena Rybakina to reunite with him one more time.
Told by a member of Rybakina’s team that he had been dismissed as her coach and to leave her alone, Vukov instead walked the lobby and hallways of her Manhattan hotel. He flooded her phone with text messages and more than 100 calls — according to sources with personal and professional relationships with Rybakina who were present at the hotel — as he sought another chance to convince Rybakina that her tennis career could not thrive without him.
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