{"id":168904,"date":"2025-09-20T03:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T03:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/168904\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T03:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T03:05:07","slug":"the-lie-serena-williams-was-told-by-her-coach-which-helped-her-win-the-wimbledon-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/168904\/","title":{"rendered":"The lie Serena Williams was told by her coach which helped her win the Wimbledon title"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Over the course of her legendary career, Serena Williams clinched seven of her 23 Grand Slam titles on the grass courts of Wimbledon. <\/p>\n<p>After securing her first crown at the All England Club in 2002, she went on to tally two more than her older sister, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/venus-williams\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Venus Williams<\/a>, and record the joint-second most in the Open Era. <\/p>\n<p>The American was dominant in South West London, but one year, she struggled in the early stages of her Wimbledon campaign. <\/p>\n<p>Her coach at the time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/Patrick-Mouratoglou\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick Mouratoglou<\/a>, decided to tell her a lie, which ultimately saw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/serena-williams\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Williams<\/a> hold the famous trophy aloft. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-147992379-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Serena Williams holding the Wimbledon title in 2012.\" class=\"wp-image-81037\" \/>Photo by Julian Finney\/Getty ImagesThe lie Patrick Mouratoglou told Serena Williams at Wimbledon<\/p>\n<p>In a post on Instagram, Mouratoglou recalled: \u201cI don\u2019t remember which year but she played Wimbledon, and she was missing all the volleys at the start of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause she was missing at the net, she was scared to move inside the court. It\u2019s automatic when you miss at the net, you\u2019re not fast enough to go take it and hit a winner. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought \u2018oh, if she continues to play like this, we\u2019re in trouble\u2019. So after the match, I remember she was biking and we always talk after the match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said to her: \u2018When I see a short ball, I am so comfortable, I sleep on my two ears\u2019. [Williams replied] \u2018Why do you say that?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said: \u2018Because you win 80% of the points at the net\u2019, which was not true. \u2018I thought I was terrible at the net.\u2019 That\u2019s what she told me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe started to play without any fear forward because she believed it. She started to be really efficient, and she won 80% of the points at the net until the end of the tournament, and she won Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis thing that was not true happened to be true. I believe a lot in that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Serena Williams\u2019 achievements with Patrick Mouratoglou as coach<\/p>\n<p>Mouratoglou first began working with Williams in 2012 and was with her until she retired during the 2022 season.<\/p>\n<p>With the Frenchman in her corner, she won two Australian Open titles, three Wimbledon championships, two Roland Garros crowns, and emerged victorious at the US Open three times. <\/p>\n<p>In 2012, Williams completed the Career Golden Slam when she earned a gold medal in singles at the London Olympics. <\/p>\n<p>Alongside Mouratoglou, she also completed the Career Grand Slam again and won three <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/wta\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WTA<\/a> Tour Championships. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over the course of her legendary career, Serena Williams clinched seven of her 23 Grand Slam titles on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[10297,6542,99,428,96],"class_list":{"0":"post-168904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-patrick-mouratoglou","9":"tag-serena-williams","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis","12":"tag-wimbledon"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}