Serena Williams’ Coach Patrick Mouratoglou Reveals How His Greatest Weakness Became His Greatest Strength
One of the most influential and successful tennis coaches, Patrick Mouratoglou has an interesting story. Currently, he coaches top players like Serena Williams, Stefanos Tsitsipas and Coco Gauff. And recently he revealed how he learned his biggest ability that has placed him apart from other coaches.
Mouratoglou is a great thinker and tactician. He reads tennis well and because of this, his players often have an upper hand. So, in the Netflix series Playbook, Mouratoglou explains how his greatest weakness in his childhood became his greatest strength.
Mouratoglou has a keen eye for detail. He narrated that during his childhood he had problems talking and connecting to people. And this enabled him to watch people more and understand things just from their body language.
“Paying attention at every detail. Because of that unbelievable weakness, this inability to connect with people I created an incredible strength, this ability to read people.”
Mouratoglou looks for nervous signs, doubts, and tensions the player might have. The body language gives all the information to Patrick, who reads them very well.
“When I look at a player, you have to read their body language. That tells you a lot. they give you so much information, and they don’t even know it. I see a lot of things, could be, they have doubts, they are nervous.”
Serena Williams’ coach Patrick Mouratolgou’s tactical brain
“All the information comes from everywhere. And then, when I have all this information, all the puzzle, I start to make a plan. I didn’t know that I was learning my job when I was a kid. I did it to survive, but this ability to read people became my biggest strength.”
In the series, Patrick also showed a peculiar habit of his. He wants to remember the story of a match and thus he writes small details pertaining to the match.
“I write down a lot of things. I have a lot, because I think it is incredibly important. It helps you clear your ideas. We think we’re not going to forget, but we forget everything. I want to remember the story of the match.”
Patrick Mouratoglou notably has won 10 Grand Slam titles with Serena Williams. He and Serena are again striving to win more. His young brigade of Tsitsipas and Gauff is surprising everybody. His analysis of various players shows his ability to find the minute details that even the player wouldn’t notice.
