How I Coached Serena Williams to 10 Grand Slams & Built Champion Mindset | Patrick Mouratoglou (E388)
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🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Patrick Mouratoglou is one of the most influential coaches in modern sport, renowned for developing champions through mindset rather than raw talent. Best known for his long partnership with Serena Williams, Patrick believes greatness is never about gifts, it’s about mentality, discipline, and professionalism.
In this episode, Patrick joins Jake and Damian to unpack his core philosophy that champions are built, not born. He explains why Novak Djokovic became the greatest of all time without Federer’s natural genius or Nadal’s physical dominance, and shares the extraordinary story of Serena Williams winning the 2015 French Open while battling a 40-degree fever, bedridden between matches, yet mentally unbreakable on court.
From the famous cap-hitting moment that established respect with Serena on day one to calling a 13-time Grand Slam champion an “underachiever,” this conversation is a powerful insight into elite performance, leadership, and human potential, and a blueprint for anyone serious about building a champion’s mindset.
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| 0:00.0 | With Sirena, I told her things that nobody on that planet would have told her. |
| 0:06.0 | I said, you know what I think? I think you're an under-receiver. |
| 0:09.0 | There is what people think and there is what people say. |
| 0:12.0 | I always define my job as I don't listen to what people say. |
| 0:16.0 | I hear what they think. |
| 0:18.0 | Protecting your children is the worst thing you can do. |
| 0:22.7 | Never kill the dreams of your kids. |
| 0:24.2 | Never. That's their dreams. |
| 0:25.8 | Respect them. Let them do. |
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| 0:50.6 | Patrick, welcome to high performance. |
| 0:52.9 | Thank you. I'm very happy to be here. |
| 0:54.6 | We're happy to have you here. We would love to go straight in to how you managed to do what you did with Serena Williams. You took |
| 0:58.8 | her to 10 Grand Slam titles. We want to know what separates the great tennis players |
| 1:03.8 | from the greatest tennis players. Well, only one thing. And people make the mistake to think it's about talent, it's about weapons. |
| 1:15.6 | Some players have bigger weapons than others, and it has nothing to do with that. |
| 1:20.6 | It's only the mindset. |
| 1:22.6 | And I think the best example of this is Novak Djokovic because it's the greatest of all times. |
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