US Open<\/a> next month, as Mouratoglou now gives his verdict on the conditions at Flushing Meadows.<\/p>\nPatrick Mouratoglou says \u2018politics\u2019 have made the US Open courts slower<\/p>\n
Looking ahead to the North American hard-court season, Mouratoglou reacted to several statements on Instagram, answering true or false.<\/p>\n
The first of which claimed that courts in the United States are faster than other hard courts around the world.<\/p>\n
\u201cFalse. All the courts are different, first of all. It\u2019s not because it\u2019s in the US or not,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think they\u2019re not especially faster than the ones in Australia.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the past, the US Open was much faster than in Australia. But, you know, these new politics to have a unified speed\u2026 I think they\u2019re very close.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re not the same, but in terms of speed, there\u2019s not such a difference.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Frenchman then commented on two statements concerning the impact hard courts have on players\u2019 bodies.<\/p>\n
\u201cHard courts are the most demanding for the body.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTrue, of course, it\u2019s much harder and tougher on the body compared to clay or grass,\u201d said Mouratoglou.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou need specific prevention before hard courts.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTrue. Before starting hard courts, you need to do it step by step, because your body is going to suffer at the start from it, and you need prevention,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
![\"Patrick](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2156242738-1024x683.jpg\")
Photo by Antonio Borga\/Eurasia Sport Images\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
However, despite that being as it may, Mouratoglou believes hard courts are the favorite surface for the majority of players.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe majority of players are more comfortable on hard courts because they play on hard courts most of the year, and they\u2019re used to doing that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow, when they have the qualities to be extremely good on clay, or the qualities to be extremely good on grass, there is a difference.<\/p>\n
\u201cI already have names that pop up, players who do by far their best results on grass every year, or others that do by far their best results on clay.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re not the majority, that\u2019s a minority.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mouratoglou then reacted to a statement claiming hard courts are the most \u2018fair\u2019 surface.<\/p>\n
\u201cFair? No, false. There\u2019s nothing fair. All the surfaces have their specificity; some players are better on one or the other one,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat is unfair is that 80% of the season is on hard courts. This is not fair. If you want to be fair with everyone, there should be 25% indoor, 25% on hard, 25% on clay, 25% on grass. That would be fair to everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 55-year-old believes the split between surfaces is \u2018unfair\u2019, but is 80% of the season really played on hard courts?<\/p>\n
The surface split between \u2018big\u2019 ATP tournaments<\/p>\n
On the ATP Tour<\/a>, \u2018big\u2019 tournaments consist of the four Grand Slams, the nine Masters 1000 events, and the ATP Finals.<\/p>\nTournamentTierSurfaceLatest championAustralian OpenGrand SlamHardJannik Sinner (2025)Indian WellsMasters 1000HardJack Draper (2025)Miami OpenMasters 1000HardJakub Mensik (2025)Monte-Carlo MastersMasters 1000ClayCarlos Alcaraz (2025)Madrid OpenMasters 1000ClayCasper Ruud (2025)Italian OpenMasters 1000ClayCarlos Alcaraz (2025)French OpenGrand SlamClayCarlos Alcaraz (2025)WimbledonGrand SlamGrassJannik Sinner (2025)Canadian OpenMasters 1000HardAlexei Popyrin (2024)Cincinnati OpenMasters 1000HardJannik Sinner (2024)US OpenGrand SlamHardJannik Sinner (2024)Shanghai MastersMasters 1000HardJannik Sinner (2024)Paris MastersMasters 1000Hard (Indoor)Alexander Zverev (2024)ATP FinalsATP FinalsHard (Indoor)Jannik Sinner (2024)ATP big tournaments<\/p>\n
Of the 14 \u2018big\u2019 tournaments on tour, nine are played on hard courts (64%), four are played on clay courts (29%), and one is played on grass (7%).<\/p>\n
The split might not be as drastic as Mouratoglou suggested, but the tournaments certainly haven\u2019t been distributed evenly between surfaces.<\/p>\n
A heavy reliance on hard-court events clearly benefits players who are better-suited to the surface, whilst grass-court specialists, for example, have been put at a disadvantage.<\/p>\n
Only time will tell if we will see a redistribution of events in the future, but it will certainly be something to look out for.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patrick Mouratoglou is likely to skip the US Open, having split with the player he was coaching recently.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,14096,82,593,2084],"class_list":{"0":"post-34186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-patrick-mouratoglou","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tennis","13":"tag-us-open"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"Naomi](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2192462876-1024x683.jpg\")
Photo by Hannah Peters\/Getty Images<\/p>\n