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Stefanos Tsitsipas, Almaty 2026 | \u00a9 Andrey Udartsev<\/p>\nThe question came from the leader of the Russian-language YouTube channel Tennis Life. He told Tsitsipas that Russian-speaking viewers questioned Mouratoglou\u2019s skills and were skeptical of his specialty. Tsitsipas said he had heard the same doubts \u201ca lot from people before.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have to understand that Patrick is not only a tennis coach, he has excelled in being a tennis coach and a quite good one, not just any tennis coach,\u201d he said. \u201cYou don\u2019t just win Grand Slams just by existing in a player\u2019s box. So he definitely has the skill set and is, in my opinion, one of the best coaches in the tennis world. I don\u2019t want to be selfish and say the best, but he would be considered among the best in our sport.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mouratoglou coached Serena Williams to 10 of her 23 Grand Slam singles titles.<\/p>\n
Tsitsipas admitted that he himself had seen Mouratoglou as a marketing man at the very start of their journey together. He first worked with him in 2016 and 2017, when the Frenchman was on court with him at the Mouratoglou Academy on the French Riviera, and said he had misjudged him then.<\/p>\n
Stefanos Tsitsipas, Almaty 2026 | \u00a9 Andrey Udartsev<\/p>\n
His skill set and the way he views tennis is so much better than I initially thought. So it kind of caught me off guard.<\/p>\n
\u201cI never expected when I first joined that he would know so much about tennis. I knew he was certainly a very good coach, but I also believed in the beginning that it might be almost like, he\u2019s just very good at marketing,\u201d he said. \u201cLike he\u2019s very good at presenting himself and showing himself. And what I was very surprised to find out is his skill set and the way he views tennis is so much better than I initially thought. So it kind of caught me off guard.\u201d<\/p>\n
His advice to the skeptics was direct. \u201cIf people really want to know Patrick Mouratoglou, in my opinion, they should spend a week with him, being coached by him, and then we\u2019ll really understand what it is being coached by him to its fullest potential,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd he keeps on surprising me every single week.\u201d<\/p>\n
Greek says Mouratoglou\u2019s business career makes him a better coach. Mouratoglou runs his academy and founded the UTS Tour in 2020. Tsitsipas presented that side of him as an asset rather than a distraction.<\/p>\n
\u201cPatrick also happens to be a businessman, he\u2019s not just a tennis coach. He has a lot of interest in business,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m a person that likes business too, so I can sort of relate to that.\u201d He said that was rare among academy owners, who are usually \u201cmainly involved in tennis.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHaving a person like that who has dealt with all kinds of people, has seen all kinds of scenarios, not just on the tennis court but away from it\u201d comes \u201cin very handy,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Mouratoglou\u2019s appointment ended years of Tsitsipas switching between his father and outside coaches. Apostolos Tsitsipas coached his son for most of his career. In 2023, Tsitsipas replaced him with Mark Philippoussis, then took him back within two months. In August 2024, he split from his father again and hired Goran Ivanisevic. That partnership lasted until the 2025 grass season, when Apostolos returned.<\/p>\n
It allows me to train with a little bit more discipline, with a little bit more structure in my daily life.<\/p>\n
In Montreal in August, after losing 7-6, 7-5 to Brazil\u2019s Joao Fonseca, Tsitsipas said the move to Mouratoglou \u201cshould have started a long time ago.\u201d<\/p>\n
In Almaty he described what it had changed. \u201cIt allows me to train with a little bit more discipline, with a little bit more structure in my daily life. I feel like one thing that I lacked a little bit in the past is structure,\u201d he said. \u201cThere wasn\u2019t a program in place of why we\u2019re doing certain things and why are we working towards a direction like that.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said the change reached into his daily routine. \u201cI\u2019ve become a morning person, in fact, in the last couple of months, and that was not the case with me, maybe my whole career,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Tsitsipas calls his head coach a mentor \u201copen to learn\u201d<\/p>\n
Tsitsipas described a partnership built on exchange. \u201cWe have open discussions about different types of things. He has opinions. We share opinions. He respects my opinions,\u201d he said. \u201cHe\u2019s not a person with too many complexes and too stubborn on his methodologies, very open to learn.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked later who guided him beyond tennis, he named Mouratoglou first, \u201ceven though he\u2019s not with me on a week-to-week basis,\u201d along with his brother Petros. \u201cHe has life experiences from everything, I feel like,\u201d Tsitsipas said of his coach. \u201cWhen you deal with so many people and important people, not just on the tennis court but away from it, I\u2019m sure that you carry a lot of life experience and a lot of values and a lot of wisdom.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The question came from the leader of the Russian-language YouTube channel Tennis Life. He told Tsitsipas that Russian-speaking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":940198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-940197","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\/940197","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=940197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/940198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}