Australian Open predictions: Emma Raducanu’s first-round fate
The 2025 Australian Open, the first grand slam tournament of the year and the 113th running of the event, starts at Melbourne Park on Sunday with four British women, including the 2021 US Open champion Emma Raducanu, and three men, led by last year’s US Open men’s semi-finalist Jack Draper, competing in the singles. Here Simon Briggs, Telegraph Sport’s tennis correspondent, assesses their chances following Thursday’s first-round draw and our other experts make their predictions for the entire to
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Elena Rybakina disagrees with the WTA's provisional suspension of coach Stefano Vukov
Elena Rybakina, the 2022 Wimbledon champion, said Saturday she disagrees with the WTA Tour's decision to provisionally suspend her longtime coach, Stefano Vukov, and reiterated that she never made a complaint about him. “I always said that he never mistreated me,” Rybakina said at a news conference the day before the start of the Australian Open, where she was the runner-up to Aryna Sabalenka two years ago. Rybakina, who is seeded No. 6 in Melbourne, characterized the whole thing as “definitely not the ideal situation” as she prepares to compete in the year's first Grand Slam tournament, and said she objected to comments made by “some coaches,” mentioning Pam Shriver by name.
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