{"id":41185,"date":"2025-07-27T23:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T23:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/41185\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T23:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T23:02:09","slug":"naomi-osaka-splits-with-coach-patrick-mouratoglou-as-tennis-hard-court-swing-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/41185\/","title":{"rendered":"Naomi Osaka splits with coach Patrick Mouratoglou as tennis hard-court swing begins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka<\/a> has split with coach Patrick Mouratoglou<\/a> after just shy of a year together.<\/p>\n

Osaka confirmed the split on social media ahead of the WTA 1,000 Canadian Open in Montreal, as the tennis shifts to hard courts, where she is most comfortable.<\/p>\n

\u201cMerci Patrick. It was such a great experience learning from you. Wishing you nothing but the best. You are one of the coolest people I\u2019ve ever met and I\u2019m sure I\u2019ll see you around,\u201d she wrote in a statement.<\/p>\n

Mouratoglou did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Osaka, 27, started working with Mouratoglou<\/a>, who most famously coached Serena Williams, following the 2024 U.S. Open. Their time together has been an up-and-down sequence of promising signs and frustrations with either injury or close-run defeats for Osaka, who said that Mouratoglou would be left wondering \u201cwhat the f\u2014 this is \u201d after a tight first-round loss to Paula Badosa at this year\u2019s French Open.<\/p>\n

Ahead of that tournament, Osaka played a second-tier tournament in Saint Malo, France<\/a>, after an early loss at the Italian Open in Rome. She won the WTA 125 event in France. reflecting afterward how missing matches due to physical issues \u2014 and three frustrating retirements with injury during promising contests in Beijing, Auckland and Melbourne in late 2024 and early 2025 \u2014 had left her lacking reps in tight moments.<\/p>\n

But at the French Open against Badosa, and then at Wimbledon against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Osaka went through the kind of encouraging but ultimately dispiriting match that has marked much of her time with Mouratoglou. Prior to a 6-4, 6-2 defeat to Emma Raducanu at the D.C. Open that proved to be their last match together, six of Osaka\u2019s last seven matches had come in three sets, with all of the deciders ending 6-4 against or in a tiebreak.<\/p>\n

Following the defeat to Pavlyuchenkova, Osaka said that her response to it was entirely removed from her emotions in Paris, where she had to briefly leave the interview room in tears.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Paris, I was very emotional. Now I don\u2019t feel anything, so I guess I\u2019d prefer to feel nothing than everything,\u201d she said in London.<\/p>\n

Osaka, who is currently world No. 51, will play Canadian qualifier Ariana Arseneault Monday in her first match at the Canadian Open.<\/p>\n

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