The cooperation between Simona Halep and Patrik Muratoglu began in April, and the ex-WTA leader managed to return to the elite of world tennis together with the French coach and win the title in Toronto. Following his early exit from the 2022 US Open, the technician gave more details about how he has been working with the Romanian so far.

Simona Halep wanted to achieve a result with Patrick Muratoglu as soon as possible

The Greek-born French coach said he usually takes time to get to know his students, but Simona Halep wanted to improve her results quickly and that brought with it a number of important changes.

“I think she was completely exhausted…physically, but more mentally than physically. I started in April and made a lot of changes. Most of them I didn’t ask for. It’s her choice. But she made a lot of changes because it’s her personality.

She is very generous in her efforts and always gives 100%. She must have been working much harder than ever. I don’t know how it was before, but from what I heard from her and the physical trainer, she worked really, really hard (with me). She decided to cooperate with me 100% and wanted to have people on the team who work with me, so there were a lot of changes.

The panic attack at Roland Garros was because he really wanted a good result and it caused too much stress. This was the first signal that everything was mentally difficult. He did well then. We haven’t changed the way it plays, but we’ve made a few tweaks, so it’s something new.

Simona was very emotionally tired this year. She paid the price, but she made three straight semifinals and then won the WTA 1000 (not in Toronto) because she played in those matches, a lot of them. Yes, there is always the fact that somewhere you win, somewhere you lose a little. You can’t have everything from day one.

My job is to help people achieve what they want. So it’s never my goal, it’s theirs. So if a player says, “I want to win a Grand Slam,” or “I want to be in the top 10,” or “I want to be No. 1 in the world,” that’s their goal. Therefore, I help them achieve this goal.

I’m getting to know them and it takes time. With Simone, I quickly found a solution because she wanted to be at her best and trusted me 100% from day one. He said to me, “Tell me, I want to change everything that needs to be changed.” So it was very stressful. In general, I don’t work like that” – Patrick MuratogluiNews reports.

Simona Halep’s last official match was on August 29 at the 2022 US Open, Grand Slam, where she lost in the first round to Daria Snigur of Ukraine.

Patrick Muratoglu and the players he coached in his career

The famous French coach started his career in 1999 when he coached Marcos Baghdatis (1999-2006).

Since then, Murtagolu has also collaborated with Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (2007-2009), Aravan Rezai (2009-2010), Yanina Wickmayer (2009-2012), Laura Robson (2010-2011), Jeremy Chardy (2021), Grigor Dimitrov (2012). ), Stefanos Tsitsipas (2018), Coco Gauff (2018), Serena Williams (2012-present), and now Simona Halep.

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