Legendary tennis player Serena Williams has had many coaches in her career, but her partnership with the French coach Patrick Mouratoglou was one of the most successful player-coach pairings in the history of the sport. Notably, Mouratoglou joined Serena’s camp in 2012, and they immediately won a Grand Slam title at Wimbledon. Meanwhile, Serena’s father Richard Williams, her coach since childhood, felt happy with his daughter’s success. However, he wasn’t happy about Mouratoglou joining her coaching camp, as he mocked the French coach.
Richard Williams once mocked Serena Williams’ coach Patrick Mouratoglou.
After Serena won the Wimbledon title in 2012, reporters asked ‘King’ Richard about Mouratoglou coaching Serena. In reply, he said, “I think it’s good, but I think it would be a lot better if Serena took the time to apply her life more to Jehovah.“
Richard had more to add.
“I don’t know what she’s doing because I’m not with her 99 percent of the time, but I think she should take more time to do that. That’s more important than any tennis ball or anything she could do in training to try new things. It was Jehovah who brought her through this here,” Richard further said.
Mouratoglou paid tribute to Serena Williams on Twitter.
Earlier this month, Serena Williams ended her illustrious tennis career after losing in the third round of the US Open. Many fans and players congratulated her and hailed her as the GOAT. Patrick Mouratoglou also posted a tweet regarding her retirement.
Fans slammed Mouratoglou for his farewell message to Serena.
Fans expressed their anger and disappointment with his tweet, as he neither mentioned Serena’s name nor tagged her in the tweet. Many fans called him out for it and criticized him massively for writing a poor farewell message.