Patrick Mouratoglou, a former tennis coach for Serena Williams, is largely responsible for many great tennis careers. With his tennis Academy, he has nurtured several tennis legends into great players, but at the same time, he has witnessed the decline of tennis players. While he never experienced a crisis with the 23-time Grand Slam winner, other tennis players, like Marcos Baghdatis, showed him how, despite being excellent, someone’s career can see a downfall.

For the Cypriot tennis player, who was admired by Roger Federer, there was a time when the 38-year-old tennis player drowned in his own success and faced problems one after the other. Mouratoglou’s autobiography provided a lot of instances explaining his falling career.

Serena Williams’ former coach, once saw Marcos Baghdatis’ downfall 

The 53-year-old French tennis coach shared in his autobiography, ‘The Coach’, a lot of unknown facts regarding a lot of tennis players he has worked with. Similarly, Mouratoglou revealed that after making it to the Australian Open finals and the Wimbledon semi-finals, he went into an overconfident mode that was not good for him. He recalled how he knew something was going wrong with him. The French coach wrote, “He was empty, exhausted by the years he had spent fighting.” 

While he was enjoying his stardom on the tennis court, he was not able to claim a Grand Slam victory or reach a Grand Slam tournament final after the 2016 Australian Open. Looking at him with a heavy heart, the 53-year-old coach had to let him go from his academy, due to his inconsistent fall. Williams’ ex-coach remembered Baghdatis’ words after telling him to leave the Academy.

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“The scenario has been laid out. I’ve already waited a long time; in this sport, you can’t make up for lost time. You can’t make me do that. You can’t expel me from the academy. It’s my family,” he added. And along with that, he stated how, somewhere, his overconfidence was the reason behind his falling tennis career.

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But do you know for a fact, that the Swiss tennis legend, Federer, is a huge Baghdatis fan? Well, when the 38-year-old tennis player retired in 2019, the 20-time Grand Slam champion sent a very sweet note as a fan.

Roger Federer admired Marcos Baghdatis 

While Marcos Baghdatis received amazing tributes around the world during his retirement, Federer’s tribute stood out in the crowd. The 41-year-old American tennis legend took to his Twitter account and shared an emotional video of Baghdatis, where he talked about how tennis was one thing that he never wanted to leave.

Along with that, the former world number one wrote, “You are the man Marcos, You have been so great for Tennis. Thank you 🙏 from a fan RF.” 

Even though the 38-year-old tennis player faced a downfall in his own tennis career, his dedication to the sport was just amazing.

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