{"id":61008,"date":"2025-08-05T20:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T20:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/61008\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T20:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T20:38:08","slug":"tennis-coach-patrick-mouratoglou-opens-up-on-recent-split-with-naomi-osaka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/61008\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis coach Patrick Mouratoglou opens up on recent split with Naomi Osaka"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Just over a week ago, before the start of the Canadian Open, it was announced Naomi Osaka split with tennis coach Patrick Mouratoglou, ending their 10-month partnership. Now, the four-time grand slam champion is making a run on the hard courts in the weeks leading up to the US Open.\n <\/p>\n

\n Someone rooting for her success: Mouratoglou.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cShe\u2019s doing well for the moment in Montreal. Let\u2019s hope she\u2019s going to go all the way,\u201d Mouratoglou said in an interview with CNN Sports<\/a> on Tuesday. \u201cI think her level of tennis is here.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cPhysically, she is ready, and she\u2019s a great competitor, she\u2019s a great champion.
So at some point, it\u2019s going to work out. I have no doubt about it.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Osaka, currently ranked No. 49, is having her best run of the season, and it\u2019s coming on Canadian soil \u2013 and on the type of surface where she\u2019s had her best results of her career. In Montreal, she\u2019ll take on Elina Svitolina on Tuesday night for a spot in the semifinals.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI\u2019m just trying to rack up hard court wins,\u201d Osaka said Sunday, after advancing to the quarterfinals. \u201cI think I\u2019m pretty confident with my base right now.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Osaka is seeking her first WTA Tour title since she hoisted the Australian Open trophy in 2021.\n <\/p>\n

\n Results of the partnership with Osaka and Mouratoglou were mixed, which included injuries and uneven results. Osaka won her first title since becoming a mother<\/a> in May, in a lower-tier WTA 125 event in France. In January, she reached her first WTA Tour final since returning from maternity leave, but she was forced to retire mid-match because of an abdominal injury. Her best results at grand slams so far this year are reaching the round of 32 at the Australian Open and Wimbledon.\n <\/p>\n

\n Mouratoglou, known for his great success coaching Serena Williams, discussed the split with Osaka and her subsequent run in Montreal with CNN.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe thing that was missing was the competitiveness,\u201d Mouratoglou said of Osaka on when the pair were working together. \u201cI think she\u2019s a great competitor, but at that time she was not as good as a competitor as I think can be and she has been in the past. And this is the thing that we didn\u2019t solve.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI wish we could have more time to solve it. But we didn\u2019t, that\u2019s life, and I have no regrets on that because that\u2019s the rule when you work in high level.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI mean, time is important, and you have to solve the problems fast. So I think that was the key that was missing.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cAnd when we stopped, I said to her, \u2018I mean, I think you\u2019re ready. If you find the person that will help you get back your efficiency during the matches, I think you\u2019re ready to do great results right now, and I hope it\u2019s going to happen very soon.\u2019\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Mouratoglou released a book in the spring called \u201cChampion Mindset,\u201d which focuses on the mental approach to the game and life. He was asked by CNN if he would describe himself as a tennis coach or a mental coach.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe mental is a huge part of that sport, probably the most important part,\u201d Mouratoglou said to CNN. \u201cSo I think it\u2019s important that the coaches are able to also help the players on that aspect of the game.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cAm I a mental coach? I hope I\u2019m not only a mental coach because, you know what, when you are a coach, as tennis is so complex, there is a huge technical aspect \u2013 a huge mental aspect, and the physical is extremely important.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cSo every player will bring you different problematics that you have to solve; otherwise they would be No. 1 already. If they\u2019re not, it means on the way from where they are to No. 1, you will have to solve things and help them solve them.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cSo my goal is to have the tools to solve any kind of, do I think I\u2019m maybe better on the on the mental side? I think so, but I hope I\u2019m good enough on the other ones too.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n After the split with Mouratoglou, Osaka started working with Polish tennis coach Tomasz Wiktorowski, known for his success with Iga Swiatek<\/a>. In that three-year partnership, Swiatek won four major titles. Wiktorowski also coached another former Polish tennis star in Agnieszka Radwanska.\n <\/p>\n

\n Osaka told reporters Sunday she is enjoying working with Wiktorowski.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI enjoy his coaching style,\u201d she said Sunday. \u201cHe\u2019s very direct and to the point. For someone like me, who my thoughts scatter around often, it\u2019s very helpful.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n On how she currently measures success, Osaka still is eying the majors, saying: \u201cI talked to my dad, and he said, \u2018Just being healthy and happy is a form of success.\u2019 I agree with that, but I want more.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI mean, definitely of course I would want to win slams, of course I would want to be in the top 10, but I think I need to pace myself and go for the mini goals, and they\u2019ll eventually turn into the big goals.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI think being in the quarterfinals here is a step to hopefully getting to the semis and the finals, so I\u2019ll try to treat it more like that.\u201d\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Facebook Tweet Email Link Just over a week ago, before the start of the Canadian Open, it was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-61008","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61008","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=61008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}