{"id":25937,"date":"2025-07-27T22:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T22:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/25937\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T22:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T22:02:07","slug":"naomi-osaka-no-longer-working-with-coach-patrick-mouratoglou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/25937\/","title":{"rendered":"Naomi Osaka no longer working with coach Patrick Mouratoglou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2789\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Naomi Osaka<\/a> and coach Patrick Mouratoglou are done working together after less than a year, the four-time <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grand Slam<\/a> champion announced Sunday on social media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Merci Patrick,&#8221; Osaka began her post, with a photo of her hitting a practice serve while he stands nearby. &#8220;It was such a great experience learning from you. Wishing you nothing but the best. You are one of the coolest people I&#8217;ve ever met and I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll see you around.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The news comes three days after Osaka lost her second match at the DC Open and just before she begins competing in Toronto. The US Open, the year&#8217;s last major tournament and an event Osaka won twice, begins in New York on Aug. 24.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/tennis-wta-atp-china-open-japan-c6bb6a7a530358fd1cb2dbf061463601\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Osaka hired Mouratoglou<\/a> &#8212; who was the longtime coach of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=394\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Serena Williams<\/a> &#8212; when she fired <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/naomi-osaka-coach-wim-fissette-7a03d64e00632bba5d63d679ee229c25\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wim Fissette<\/a> shortly after her second-round exit at last year&#8217;s US Open.<\/p>\n<p>Osaka, a former No. 1, is currently ranked 51st and has a 21-11 record this season.<\/p>\n<p>She hasn&#8217;t been past the third round at a Grand Slam tournament since winning the 2021 Australian Open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON &#8212; Naomi Osaka and coach Patrick Mouratoglou are done working together after less than a year, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-25937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}