{"id":12235,"date":"2025-06-25T01:29:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T01:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/12235\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T01:29:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T01:29:11","slug":"patrick-mouratoglou-gives-his-verdict-on-aryna-sabalenkas-message-to-coco-gauff-after-french-open-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/12235\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Mouratoglou gives his verdict on Aryna Sabalenka’s message to Coco Gauff after French Open controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Aryna Sabalenka\u2019s post-match comments at Roland Garros dominated headlines for weeks.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a match between the top two seeds, Coco Gauff defeated Sabalenka<\/a> 6-7, 6-2, 6-4 to win her maiden French Open title earlier this month.<\/p>\n

After the match, Sabalenka said the conditions were \u2018horrible\u2019<\/a> on Court Philippe Chatrier, comments that were widely criticised by fans and pundits.<\/p>\n

Frustrated after such a devastating defeat, Sabalenka claimed Iga Swiatek would have beaten Gauff<\/a> if she had qualified for the final during her post-match press conference.<\/p>\n

\"ArynaPhoto by Franco Arland\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

She made a poorly received apology the following day, but expressed herself much better ahead of last week\u2019s Berlin Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was just completely unprofessional of me. I let my emotions get the better of me. I absolutely regret what I said back then,\u201d said Sabalenka<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut what I also want to say is that I wrote to Coco [Gauff]<\/a> afterward, not immediately, but recently. I wanted to apologise and make sure she knew she absolutely deserved to win the tournament and that I respect her. I never intended to attack her.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reacting to Sabalenka\u2019s latest apology, top WTA<\/a> coach Patrick Mouratoglou weighed in with his thoughts.<\/p>\n

Patrick Mouratoglou \u2018really loved\u2019 Aryna Sabalenka\u2019s message to Coco Gauff<\/p>\n

Talking on Instagram, Naomi Osaka\u2019s<\/a> coach Mouratoglou gave his verdict on Sabalenka\u2019s message to Gauff.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven if she\u2019s the world number one, even if she\u2019s winning so much, even if she can show so much confidence in her behavior, what happened just shows that she\u2019s a human, and it feels good,\u201d said Mouratoglou<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst of all, I really love that Aryna [Sabalenka] was able to take distance, reflect, and come back with some comments about her final and the commentaries she made about the match against Coco [Gauff].<\/p>\n

\u201cWe all go through moments when we have too much emotion, and it\u2019s not the mind that speaks, it\u2019s the emotions.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Frenchman claimed he had seen those same emotions when working with 23-time Major winner Serena Williams<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it was very emotional for her, I mean it\u2019s a Grand Slam final,\u201d said Mouratoglou.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe emotional level, and I went through that with Serena [Williams] many times. I know how much emotion it brings, and when you lose and you feel like you had the match in your hands, there is nothing more painful.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think she was at the highest possible pain at that moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mouratoglou explained how Sabalenka\u2019s latest comments spoke to her maturity, and denied any suggestions that they made her look \u2018weak\u2019.<\/p>\n

\"ArynaPhoto by Frey\/TPN\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think that it\u2019s a sign of weakness to admit that you made a mistake publicly. I think it\u2019s proof of strength,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it takes a lot of courage, it shows a lot of maturity to be able to express, and to admit it, at some point, shows strength.<\/p>\n

\u201cOtherwise, people who are not strong mentally will try to hide their fragility as much as they can.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe said she was not clever to say that. I would say the opposite. I would say she\u2019s clever enough to realise that what she said in that special moment was wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mouratoglou insisted he would rather a player be honest like Sabalenka than act perfectly all the time.<\/p>\n

\"PatrickPhoto by Jean Catuffe\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be able to say \u2018I was wrong\u2019, and I prefer in a way, someone who\u2019s not fully in control all the time, and always perfect in what they say, because it shows humanity, otherwise you are a robot,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have a press conference after every single match. Sometimes, and especially in super emotional moments, they can say things that maybe aren\u2019t right. It\u2019s not a big deal.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the situation resolved, at least from the outside, both Gauff and Sabalenka can now switch their full attention to Wimbledon<\/a>, where they search for more Grand Slam success.<\/p>\n

Aryna Sabalenka and Coco Gauff\u2019s Wimbledon records<\/p>\n

Neither Gauff nor Sabalenka has won Wimbledon so far in their careers, and both players remarkably have the exact same record at SW19.<\/p>\n\nPlayer<\/strong><\/td>\nBest result<\/strong><\/td>\n2024 result<\/strong><\/td>\nWin\/Loss record<\/strong><\/td>\nWin %<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nAryna Sabalenka<\/td>\nSF \u2013 2021, 2023<\/td>\n\u2013<\/td>\n11-5<\/td>\n69%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCoco Gauff<\/td>\n4R \u2013 2019, 2021, 2024<\/td>\n4R<\/td>\n11-5<\/td>\n69%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Aryna Sabalenka and Coco Gauff\u2019s Wimbledon record<\/p>\n

Sharing an identical 11-5 record, Gauff and Sabalenka will look to improve in 2025.<\/p>\n

Of the two, it\u2019s Sabalenka who has come closest to lifting the Venus Rosewater Dish, reaching the semi-finals on two occasions.<\/p>\n

Sabalenka lost in a deciding set two years ago, coming up just short against Tunisia\u2019s Ons Jabeur<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Gauff, on the other hand, has yet to reach the quarterfinals, suffering three heartbreaking fourth-round defeats.<\/p>\n

Only time will tell if either player can achieve a career-best result at Wimbledon in 2025, but it will certainly be worth tuning in for.<\/p>\n

The 2025 Wimbledon tournament is scheduled to begin on Monday, June 30.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aryna Sabalenka\u2019s post-match comments at Roland Garros dominated headlines for weeks. In a match between the top two…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[2477,2210,1823,6116,62,1464,67,132,68,2212],"class_list":{"0":"post-12235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-aryna-sabalenka","9":"tag-coco-gauff","10":"tag-french-open","11":"tag-patrick-mouratoglou","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tennis","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-wta"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114741415994761981","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}