{"id":303511,"date":"2025-07-30T09:01:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T09:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/303511\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T09:01:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T09:01:12","slug":"patrick-mouratoglou-says-whats-completely-changed-about-the-us-open-courts-ahead-of-the-tournament-starting-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/303511\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Mouratoglou says what\u2019s\u00a0completely changed about the US Open courts ahead of the tournament starting this year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Patrick Mouratoglou is likely to skip the US Open, having split with the player he was coaching recently.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After less than a year together, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/news\/naomi-osaka-releases-statement-after-ending-her-coaching-partnership-with-patrick-mouratoglou\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mouratoglou and Naomi Osaka parted ways<\/a> ahead of the 2025 Canadian Open tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The pair enjoyed their best result together at the 2025 ASB Classic, when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/news\/naomi-osaka-issues-apology-after-losing-the-final-in-the-asb-classic-against-clara-tauson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Osaka retired injured<\/a> whilst leading Clara Tauson by a set-to-love in the final.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2192462876-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Naomi Osaka and Clara Tauson pose with their trophies after the 2025 ASB Classic final\" class=\"wp-image-64056\" \/>Photo by Hannah Peters\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>It was at the Grand Slams where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/naomi-osaka\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Osaka<\/a> struggled, however, losing before the fourth round of all three majors in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese star will be hoping to bounce back at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/us-open\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US Open<\/a> next month, as Mouratoglou now gives his verdict on the conditions at Flushing Meadows.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Mouratoglou says \u2018politics\u2019 have made the US Open courts slower<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead to the North American hard-court season, Mouratoglou reacted to several statements on Instagram, answering true or false.<\/p>\n<p>The first of which claimed that courts in the United States are faster than other hard courts around the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFalse. All the courts are different, first of all. It\u2019s not because it\u2019s in the US or not,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think they\u2019re not especially faster than the ones in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the past, the US Open was much faster than in Australia. But, you know, these new politics to have a unified speed\u2026 I think they\u2019re very close.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re not the same, but in terms of speed, there\u2019s not such a difference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Frenchman then commented on two statements concerning the impact hard courts have on players\u2019 bodies.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"inline-links\">\n<li>\u201cHard courts are the most demanding for the body.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cTrue, of course, it\u2019s much harder and tougher on the body compared to clay or grass,\u201d said Mouratoglou.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"inline-links\">\n<li>\u201cYou need specific prevention before hard courts.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cTrue. Before starting hard courts, you need to do it step by step, because your body is going to suffer at the start from it, and you need prevention,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2156242738-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Patrick Mouratoglou speaks during the 2024 French Open final\" class=\"wp-image-116027\" \/>Photo by Antonio Borga\/Eurasia Sport Images\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>However, despite that being as it may, Mouratoglou believes hard courts are the favorite surface for the majority of players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe majority of players are more comfortable on hard courts because they play on hard courts most of the year, and they\u2019re used to doing that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, when they have the qualities to be extremely good on clay, or the qualities to be extremely good on grass, there is a difference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI already have names that pop up, players who do by far their best results on grass every year, or others that do by far their best results on clay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re not the majority, that\u2019s a minority.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mouratoglou then reacted to a statement claiming hard courts are the most \u2018fair\u2019 surface.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFair? No, false. There\u2019s nothing fair. All the surfaces have their specificity; some players are better on one or the other one,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is unfair is that 80% of the season is on hard courts. This is not fair. If you want to be fair with everyone, there should be 25% indoor, 25% on hard, 25% on clay, 25% on grass. That would be fair to everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 55-year-old believes the split between surfaces is \u2018unfair\u2019, but is 80% of the season really played on hard courts?<\/p>\n<p>The surface split between \u2018big\u2019 ATP tournaments<\/p>\n<p>On the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/atp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ATP Tour<\/a>, \u2018big\u2019 tournaments consist of the four Grand Slams, the nine Masters 1000 events, and the ATP Finals.<\/p>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Tournament<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Tier<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Surface<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Latest champion<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Australian Open<\/td>\n<td>Grand Slam<\/td>\n<td>Hard<\/td>\n<td>Jannik Sinner (2025)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Indian Wells<\/td>\n<td>Masters 1000<\/td>\n<td>Hard<\/td>\n<td>Jack Draper (2025)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Miami Open<\/td>\n<td>Masters 1000<\/td>\n<td>Hard<\/td>\n<td>Jakub Mensik (2025)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Monte-Carlo Masters<\/td>\n<td>Masters 1000<\/td>\n<td>Clay<\/td>\n<td>Carlos Alcaraz (2025)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Madrid Open<\/td>\n<td>Masters 1000<\/td>\n<td>Clay<\/td>\n<td>Casper Ruud (2025)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Italian Open<\/td>\n<td>Masters 1000<\/td>\n<td>Clay<\/td>\n<td>Carlos Alcaraz (2025)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>French Open<\/td>\n<td>Grand Slam<\/td>\n<td>Clay<\/td>\n<td>Carlos Alcaraz (2025)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Wimbledon<\/td>\n<td>Grand Slam<\/td>\n<td>Grass<\/td>\n<td>Jannik Sinner (2025)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Canadian Open<\/td>\n<td>Masters 1000<\/td>\n<td>Hard<\/td>\n<td>Alexei Popyrin (2024)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Cincinnati Open<\/td>\n<td>Masters 1000<\/td>\n<td>Hard<\/td>\n<td>Jannik Sinner (2024)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>US Open<\/td>\n<td>Grand Slam<\/td>\n<td>Hard<\/td>\n<td>Jannik Sinner (2024)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Shanghai Masters<\/td>\n<td>Masters 1000<\/td>\n<td>Hard<\/td>\n<td>Jannik Sinner (2024)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Paris Masters<\/td>\n<td>Masters 1000<\/td>\n<td>Hard (Indoor)<\/td>\n<td>Alexander Zverev (2024)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>ATP Finals<\/td>\n<td>ATP Finals<\/td>\n<td>Hard (Indoor)<\/td>\n<td>Jannik Sinner (2024)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p>ATP big tournaments<\/p>\n<p>Of the 14 \u2018big\u2019 tournaments on tour, nine are played on hard courts (64%), four are played on clay courts (29%), and one is played on grass (7%).<\/p>\n<p>The split might not be as drastic as Mouratoglou suggested, but the tournaments certainly haven\u2019t been distributed evenly between surfaces.<\/p>\n<p>A heavy reliance on hard-court events clearly benefits players who are better-suited to the surface, whilst grass-court specialists, for example, have been put at a disadvantage.<\/p>\n<p>Only time will tell if we will see a redistribution of events in the future, but it will certainly be something to look out for.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patrick Mouratoglou is likely to skip the US Open, having split with the player he was coaching recently.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[35717,79,1068,16,15,5067],"class_list":{"0":"post-303511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-patrick-mouratoglou","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-tennis","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-us-open"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}