Elena Rybakina: ‘My coach got a tattoo of my name. It’s crazy but we had a bet’

The Wimbledon champion has dropped to No 25 in the world despite her triumph and is looking to rise again at the US Open In February 2020, as Elena Rybakina’s rise up the rankings became impossible to ignore, she and her coach, Stefano Vukov, made a mischievous bet during the Qatar Open. If she won Wimbledon, he said, he would get a tattoo of her name. She recorded his pledge, but then forgot about it. Covid struck soon after, and instead she spent the next two years trying to recover her