Between the summers of 2011 and 2012, Serena Williams hit one of the darkest stretches of her career. After cutting her feet in a freak accident in July 2010, she missed the rest of that season, only to suffer her first-ever opening-round Grand Slam loss at the 2012 French Open. Desperate for a turnaround, she reached out to Patrick Mouratoglou , then a relatively unknown coach, asking to train at his Paris academy. “We have that relationship where I can tell him ‘Look, this isn’t great’ and it kind of goes back and forth,” Serena even said in 2015. But Mouratoglou now reveals that the relationship wasn’t all smooth sailing at the start, sharing how Serena and Richard Williams treated him early on.

In a recent episode of the Business of Sport podcast, Patrick Mourat

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