Serena Williams’ former coach, Patrick Mouratoglou, just lately gave his two cents on teaching Naomi Osaka. The Frenchman maintained that ‘admiring’ a tennis participant and feeling a way of authority within the relationship go hand-in-hand. He additionally appeared again on his journey with the previous World No. 1 as he insisted that the way in which she practices has utterly modified below him.

Osaka employed Mouratoglou as her coach in September 2024 in her comeback season from maternity go away. The 27-year-old has since loved favorable outcomes below the veteran coach, which embrace ending runner-up on the ASB Traditional in January and triumphing on the WTA 125 event in Saint-Malo, France.

Naomi Osaka’s coach, Patrick Mouratoglou, who beforehand guided Serena Williams to 10 Main titles between 2012-2021, took to Instagram to speak about how necessary it’s for a coach to suppose extremely of their ward’s tennis sport. The 55-year-old added that he would not supply his companies to a participant whom he did not admire.

“I feel it is completely essential to have this admiration on your participant, as a result of the participant goes to really feel it each second. I do not suppose it is contradictory to be admiring a participant and ready of authority on the identical time,” Naomi Osaka’s coach Patrick Mouratoglou mentioned in an Instagram reel. “I feel you are able to do each. I might by no means work with a participant if I do not admire that participant. And when you take a look at Naomi for instance, that I work with in the meanwhile, I love her loads. I feel she’s an unimaginable participant. Once I watch her play, unimaginable feeling of delight as a result of I like her sport.”

Mouratoglou additional claimed that taking Osaka’s sport “to the subsequent stage” was certainly one of his major targets.

“I feel it is crucial, and it would not take away the authority… I do know what it’ll take to go to the subsequent stage. And I drive her to the subsequent vacation spot. And I do know we’re not that far,” he added.

Naomi Osaka is at the moment ranked 56th on the WTA rankings.

“Naomi Osaka has carried out an awesome job to be sure that she stays injury-free” – Patrick Mouratoglou

Patrick Mouratoglou recounted how far Naomi Osaka had are available in the previous couple of years. The Frenchman claimed that she had bridged a niche “by way of depth” whereas additionally singing praises about her skill to deal with matches.

“She was very a lot injured previously, she’s carried out an awesome job to be sure that she stays damage free,” Mouratoglou mentioned. “And I can see how a lot she progressed on the bodily aspect. The best way she practices now in contrast to a couple months in the past, she went to a different stage by way of depth. How she handles the matches can also be higher,” he added.

Osaka is at the moment in poor kind as she has not certified past the spherical of 16 in any WTA 1000 occasion this 12 months. Most just lately, she reached the second spherical of this week’s Dangerous Homburg Open, the place she went out to World No. 10 Emma Navarro in straight units.