Patrick Mouratoglou
Patrick Mouratoglou (born 8 June 1970) is a French tennis coach and sports commentator of Greek descent. He has been the coach of Serena Williams from June 2012 to 2022. Since Spring 2022, Mouratoglou is the coach of Simona Halep.
Coaching career
He founded the Mouratoglou Tennis Academy in 1996 near Paris (later relocated to the outskirts of Nice), and has coached many up-and-coming players, including Marcos Baghdatis (whom he coached to the final of the 2006 Australian Open), Julia Vakulenko, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Aravane Rezaï, Irena Pavlovic, Jérémy Chardy, Laura Robson, Yanina Wickmayer and Grigor Dimitrov.
Mouratoglou started coaching the ATP player Marcos Baghdatis in 1999 when Mouratoglou invited him to his Tennis Academy in October 1999, on a one-week basis. Baghdatis was, according to Mouratoglou, "not an athlete at all", however within seven years he would become a junior world No. 1, win the 2003 Australian Open boys' *le, reach the final of the same tournament in 2006 and reach the world's top ten.
In July 2007, he started coaching Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. Within two years, Pavlyuchenkova reached the world's top 30 and has since made two Grand Slam quarterfinals and reached a career-high ranking of world No. 13. They ended their *ociation in August 2009, and Mouratoglou moved onto coaching both Aravane Rezaï and Yanina Wickmayer. Rezaï enjoyed a successful 2010 season, entering the world's top 20 and winning the Premier event in Madrid whilst Wickmayer reached a career-high ranking of world No. 12 in April 2010. Mouratoglou stopped working with both Rezaï and Wickmayer in August 2010 and April 2012 respectively.
In December 2010, Mouratoglou started coaching Laura Robson, who was world No. 217 at the time and still struggling to break into the senior tour. They worked together for six months before separating shortly before Wimbledon in 2011, when Robson was still struggling to make any progress on the WTA Tour, having slipped further to world No. 257. During this same period, Mouratoglou also coached Jérémy Chardy within his academy.
In March 2012, Mouratoglou started coaching Grigor Dimitrov and set about guiding him back into the world's top 100, having dropped to No. 102 by the time he started. This *ociation ended in September that year and Mouratoglou moved on to coaching Serena Williams.
By the time Mouratoglou started coaching Williams, she had just suffered her first-ever opening round defeat in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament, losing in the first round of the 2012 French Open. Since then, Mouratoglou has guided Williams to her fifth, sixth and seventh Wimbledon *les, the Olympic gold medal, her fourth, fifth, and sixth US Open *les, her second and third French Open *les, three consecutive year-end championships *les, her sixth and seventh Australian Open *le and lifted her back to world No. 1 in the WTA rankings.
In 2015, Stefanos Tsitsipas started training in his tennis academies, as well as being coached by Patrick Mouratoglou and his father Apostolos Tsitsipas.
In Spring 2022, Simona Halep began training with Mouratoglou.
References
External links
- Official website
- SGL
- 1999 Paris
- 1999 Los Angeles
- 2000 Hanover
- 2000 Los Angeles
- 2000 Tokyo
- 2002 Scottsdale
- 2002 Tokyo
- 2002 Leipzig
- 2003 Paris
- 2004 Beijing
- 2008 Bangalore
- 2011 Stanford
- 2012 Charleston
- 2012 Stanford
- 2013 Brisbane
- 2013 Charleston
- 2014 Brisbane
- 2014 Stanford
- DBL
- with Venus Williams
- 1999 Hanover
- with Alexandra Stevenson
- 2002 Leipzig
- with Venus Williams
- 2009 Stanford
- SGL
- 2013 Bastad
- 2020 Auckland
- DBL
- with Venus Williams
- 1998 Oklahoma
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