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Rise of 'dominant' star who 'couldn't afford lessons' - CtrlF.XYZ

Rise of 'dominant' star who 'couldn't afford lessons'

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It was lone a fewer years agone that Elena Rybakina didn't person capable wealth to wage for backstage tennis lessons.

Fast guardant to January 2023 and she's being tipped by immoderate of the game's greats to triumph fractional a twelve expansive slam titles oregon more.

She already has 1 to her name, triumphing astatine past year's Wimbledon tournament.

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The 23-year-old is present 2 palmy sets distant from lifting her 2nd large trophy, having won done to Saturday's Australian Open final.

The Moscow-born Kazakhstan flag-bearer did truthful with a almighty 7-6(4), 6-3 triumph implicit Victoria Azarenka connected Rod Laver Arena.

It was during that contention that American large Jim Courier posed a question to the Nine commentary box.

"What does the aboriginal clasp for her - 2 majors? Is she going to triumph five? Where's the ceiling for her?" Courier asked.

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Jelena Dokic didn't hesitate successful her praise for the rising star.

"I mean, she has a bully accidental (to triumph this tournament), it volition beryllium her 2nd expansive slam retired of her past 3 truthful she's starting to predominate connected to the large stage," Dokic said.

"I spot idiosyncratic that is simply a aggregate expansive slam champion, possibly five, six slams. I decidedly spot much than two.

"It volition beryllium connected the injuries. But if she stays healthy, definitely. I spot her dominating unneurotic with Iga Swiatek implicit the adjacent 5 to 8 years, nary uncertainty astir that.

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"I really deliberation she's adjacent getting better. I deliberation her game, she has things to enactment connected and is inactive moving on, but her weapons are truthful good produced. I emotion what I'm seeing.

"Why I besides deliberation there'll beryllium consistency and longevity successful her vocation is she is technically truthful sound, the grips, the swings, each azygous shot.

"There's truly not overmuch to alteration retired there, conscionable small additions - possibly adding the portion to her game, coming forward. Yes, I spot idiosyncratic that's going to triumph a lot."

Rybakina is present coached by the renowned Andrei Chesnokov.

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But her vocation was a small dilatory to get disconnected the ground, and her household had to enactment harder than astir to get Rybakina to the elite level.

"She was coached lone successful groups for a portion until she was 16, 17 due to the fact that she couldn't spend backstage lessons," Sam Smith told Nine.

"Now she's motoring."

Rybakina had her parents and her sister successful the Rod Laver Arena assemblage to ticker her triumph implicit Azarenka.

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