{"id":138126,"date":"2025-09-15T04:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T04:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/138126\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T04:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T04:36:08","slug":"patrick-mouratoglou-reveals-the-day-he-thought-he-was-a-terrible-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/138126\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Mouratoglou reveals the day he thought he was a ‘terrible’ coach\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Patrick Mouratoglou has proven himself to be a world-class coach over the years, having guided one of the greats of the game to the biggest titles in tennis. <\/p>\n

Mouratoglou<\/a> worked with Serena Williams<\/a> from 2012 to 2022, helping her clinch 10 Grand Slams, three WTA<\/a> Tour championships, and an Olympic gold medal. <\/p>\n

As well as Williams, the Frenchman has enjoyed success with Aravane Rezai, Simona Halep and Holger Rune<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Since Mouratoglou parted ways with Naomi Osaka<\/a>, the 55-year-old has recently been reflecting on his early days in coaching, where he once thought it might not be the job for him.<\/p>\n

\"PatrickPhoto by Julian Finney\/Getty ImagesPatrick Mouratoglou recalls his stint with Marcos Baghdatis<\/p>\n

He was in the corner of former Australian Open finalist Marcos Baghdatis from 1999 to 2006, a seven-year period marking his first stint as a coach.<\/p>\n

In a post on Instagram, Mouratoglou recalled: \u201cI remember Marcos Baghdatis, when I started to work with him as a coach, I followed him on a Challenger in Bratislava. <\/p>\n

\u201cI remember he went from the qualifiers to the final, and he played Dominik Hrbaty, who was number 14 in the world. Marcos was 300.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe match starts, he\u2019s down 4-1, Hrbaty has a better forehand, better backhand, better serve, better movement. I remember, I thought, s\u2014\u2014, it\u2019s going to be tough to win this one, and Marcos won.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you ask me, how? I have no idea, but he found a way. After that match, I thought I was a terrible coach because I didn\u2019t believe in my player.<\/p>\n

\u201cI learned something big this day. Thankfully, he didn\u2019t feel it. Otherwise, he would probably have lost. But he believed. I mean, the guy plays for the moment, and he found a way. And that\u2019s really special.\u201d<\/p>\n

Patrick Mouratoglou\u2019s spell with Marcos Baghdatis on the ATP Tour<\/p>\n

Mouratoglou first began coaching Baghdatis when he was 14 years old after inviting him to his academy in 1999. <\/p>\n

With him, the Cypriot became junior world number one and won the 2003 Australian boys\u2019 title. <\/p>\n

In 2006, Baghdatis had his best year on the ATP Tour, reaching the semifinals of Wimbledon and the final of the Australian Open, where he ultimately lost to Roger Federer<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Under Mouratoglou in 2006, he reached a career-high ranking of 8th in the world, but after falling to 11th in October that year, he never returned to the top ten for the remainder of his tennis journey, which ended in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patrick Mouratoglou has proven himself to be a world-class coach over the years, having guided one of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[1308,64353,41686,101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-138126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-atp","9":"tag-marcos-baghdatis","10":"tag-patrick-mcenroe","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tennis","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}