{"id":87676,"date":"2025-07-27T18:03:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T22:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=87676"},"modified":"2025-07-27T18:05:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T22:05:03","slug":"naomi-osaka-and-mouratoglou-call-time-on-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2025\/07\/27\/naomi-osaka-and-mouratoglou-call-time-on-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"Naomi Osaka and Mouratoglou Call Time on Partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Naomi Osaka and Patrick Mouratoglou have <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/1949544649565282626\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ended their coaching relationship<\/a> just as she heads into the WTA Montreal, Canadian Open. The split comes roughly ten months after Osaka hired the French coach following her departure from long-time mentor Wim Fissette.<\/p>\n<p>Together in 2025, Mouratoglou encouraged Osaka to step down to the WTA\u202f125 level in Saint-Malo, where she captured her first clay-court title since returning to the tour. That spark helped her string together an eight\u2011match winning streak, though results subsequently cooled to a 3\u20135 stretch.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"_U2vf4VPSvBaBlLxmgCa6g\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/2222448086\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'_U2vf4VPSvBaBlLxmgCa6g',sig:'uuMg48Isw8esg98HVeCjn3a-dTW678BXD9YYI5ZNZIc=',w:'594px',h:'379px',items:'2222448086',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Their working dynamic was candid from the start. Osaka admitted initially feeling hesitant\u2014his persona loomed large due to his work with Serena Williams\u2014but warmed up once she got to know him on the court. Mouratoglou, for his part, emphasized that any collaboration rested on genuine admiration: \u201cI would never work with a player if I don\u2019t admire her,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.essentiallysports.com\/wta-tennis-news-naomi-osakas-coach-patrick-mouratoglou-finally-breaks-silence-on-how-their-exciting-collaboration-began-she-got-in-touch.com\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he once said<\/a> of Osaka.<\/p>\n<p>The partnership also included turbulent moments\u2014most notably Osaka\u2019s tearful first\u2011round loss at the French Open, where\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/05\/26\/sports\/emotional-naomi-osaka-loses-in-first-round-of-french-open\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">she uttered a now\u2011iconic line <\/a>about Mouratoglou going \u201cfrom working with, like, the greatest player ever to, like \u2026 what the f**k is this?\u201d. Despite that emotional fallout, Mouratoglou stood by her publicly, extending support after her Wimbledon exit earlier in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>As Osaka recalibrates her camp ahead of the hard-court season, the split marks both an end and a fresh beginning\u2014one defined by lessons learned, pressure managed, and expectations reset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naomi Osaka and Patrick Mouratoglou have ended their coaching relationship just as she heads into the WTA Montreal, Canadian Open. The split comes roughly ten months after Osaka hired the French coach following her departure from long-time mentor Wim Fissette. Together in 2025, Mouratoglou encouraged Osaka to step down to the WTA\u202f125 level in Saint-Malo, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4590,"featured_media":62280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2,9],"tags":[476,11366,2339,16576,43206,364],"class_list":["post-87676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wta","category-featured","category-news","tag-naomi-osaka","tag-patrick-mouratoglou","tag-wim-fissette","tag-wta-montreal","tag-wta-news","tag-wta-tour"],"modified_by":"Steen Kirby","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4590"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87676"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87692,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87676\/revisions\/87692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}