Rybakina At Australian Open Where The Attention Remains

"The court on which the tournament is started is less important than the court on which it is finished. The "New York Times" article from a few days ago by Yelena Rybakina could not have stated it any more precisely.

With her victory at Wimbledon the previous year, Rybakina, then 23 years old, won the most significant trophy of the year. There was no interest in Rybakina at the start of the Grand Slam competition in Melbourne.

Round one of the Australian Tennis Association tournament began on outdoor court 13, which at least a few media members criticized as disrespectful on social media. The tournament director, Craig Tiley, oversaw the event's planning. Rybakina declared that she didn't give a damn.

Between sports and politics: Rybakina Rybakina's lack of attention isn't just a result of her reserved, at times stoic demeanor. She also happens to be the right-hander with the best serve on the women's tour right now. Although Rybakina has been representing Kazakhstan for a number of years, the timing of the Russian-born Moscow and her achievements in this politically and athletically sensitive world could not be worse.

That won't change much, if at all, in the short term, despite the famous Australian Open semifinals. Rybakina switched associations five years ago, from the Russian to the Kazakh, in the hopes of receiving better support there, both financially and in terms of content.

In 2018, she was just one of many talented players in the Russian Tennis Federation. Yaroslava Shvedova, who at one point changed from the Russian to the Kazakh association and is currently employed in Kazakhstan as a player developer, as well as the financially secure Kazakh tennis president Bulat Utemuratow took advantage of this and have remained with Rybakina to this day.

However, Rybakina did not gain anything from her first Grand Slam victory in terms of sports, and she also found herself in the middle of several sport-political conflicts. The influential Wimbledon tournament organizers, who were also under pressure from the then-British government centered around Boris Johnson, had to exclude Belarusian and Russian players, coaches, and journalists from the competition as a result of the war of aggression against Ukraine.

Both the men's (ATP) and women's (WTA) player organizers reacted strongly and decided not to award any points for the world rankings. Rybakina is 22 places behind her seeding in the world rankings, where she would be comfortably ranked in the top ten with an additional 2,000 points.

"With the hard shots I have, it's not that simple to stay out of trouble. She said in Melbourne, "I'm still working on finding my consistency throughout the year.

She is successful. Among other things, Rybakina eliminated Danielle Collins, a finalist from the previous year, and gave Iga Swiatek, the best return player in the world, little chance.

Against Jelena Ostapenko on Tuesday, she prevailed. A young lady named Rybakina is courteous and intelligent.

She simply ignored the Russian part of the question from the FAZ about how much support she received from her native country: "I get a lot of support all over the world, but Kazakhstan is most definitely one of the biggest sources. During the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2021, she experienced real value for the first time.

When it appeared that the press conference would turn more political, Rybakina ended it by saying, "I answered all the questions at Wimbledon and have nothing more to add. When asked in London if her domestic success was being exploited for political gain, she responded: "I've played for Kazakhstan for a long time and fulfilled a lifelong dream by doing so at the Olympics.

What will occur is a mystery to me. There is no denying that there is always news, but I have no control over it.

My place of birth is also something I have no control over. Rybakina's Wimbledon victory was acknowledged as a Russian victory at the time by Khamil Tarpishev, a longtime Russian tennis executive and Putin ally.

Despite the fact that her parents still reside in Moscow, Rybakina herself admitted in 2022 that she hadn't been there since the start of the conflict. An online game's Russian-speaking players are being interviewed in Melbourne by one and only one Russian colleague.

He claimed that Russia's interest in Rybakina remained unchanged. Ten years after winning her second Australian Open championship, Belarusian Wiktoryja Asaranka earned a spot in the semifinals.

Currently, she meets Rybakina.

She simply ignored the Russian part of the question from the FAZ about how much support she received from her native country: "I get a lot of support all over the world, but Kazakhstan is most definitely one of the biggest sources.