Elena Rybakina looks like she's 'not the Wimbledon champion,' says life as champion 'not the best'

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Elena Rybakina looks like she's 'not the Wimbledon champion,' says life as champion 'not the best' [ad_1]

Nevertheless, regardless of her momentous first grand slam victory in London in July, she describes her expertise as a Wimbledon champion as "not the best," saying she looks like she's "not the Wimbledon champion."

Rybakina's frustrations come after world rating factors weren't awarded at Wimbledon this yr in response to the match organizer's determination to ban Russian and Belarusian gamers within the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Usually, Rybakina's world rating would have skyrocketed after profitable Wimbledon -- she would have been anticipated to crack the highest 10 in one other yr. Nevertheless, the 23-year-old has fallen to No. 25 on the earth.

And talking forward of the US Open which begins on Monday, Kazakhstani Rybakina expressed her unhappiness at life since her maiden grand slam victory.

"It was my dream to win Wimbledon," Rybakina instructed reporters in New York on Friday. "It is (a) pity. I really feel like really I am not the Wimbledon champion."

Rybakina celebrates with the trophy after beating Ons Jabeur in the Wimbledon final.

She added: "I do not suppose that it is truthful. After all, we can't change it. It was a choice (made) earlier than. I am speaking not solely about myself, however simply usually I believe with all the choices, many gamers are paying for all these selections.

"In a single match I'm going and play in opposition to the best champion, (Garbine) Muguruza, and we play on Courtroom No. 4. That is form of like (a) query for me."

She additionally lamented how her time as a grand slam winner hasn't matched others up to now, explaining that if rating factors had been awarded and she or he would have risen into the highest 10, she would have been handled in another way, enjoying on higher courts and being scheduled extra favorably.

"Expertise-wise, I might say it was not the best."

Rybakina, who was born in Russia however has represented Kazakhstan since 2018, shocked the tennis group by beating No. 3 seed Ons Jabeur within the Wimbledon last final month.

And whereas she turned Kazakhstan's first grand slam winner, the ban on rating factors meant she missed out on 2,000 factors for the WTA's Race to the Finals -- girls's tennis' season-ending occasion -- the place she would sit second if she had obtained them.

The highest eight qualify for the finals, however Rybakina at present ranks twentieth earlier than the US Open, leaving her an uphill battle to make the occasion in October.

Rybakina returns a shot against Jabeur in the Wimbledon final.

"It is all the pieces round. It is the factors scenario. I do not suppose that it is truthful," Rybakina mentioned.

"Realizing that as of at the moment I might be No.2 within the Race and I am not capable of play the Race, I do not suppose it is truthful. I am speaking not solely about myself, however simply usually I believe with all the choices, many gamers are paying for all these selections."

Rybakina, the No. 25 seed for the US Open, begins her try to win back-to-back grand slam titles on Tuesday, enjoying France's Clara Burel within the first spherical.


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