The Coach

How bad do you want success? Patrick learns his players emotions and tries to trigger motivations that help turn them into champions. This isn’t a book about tennis playing techniques, it’s about how he could help those who wanted success at nearly all costs.

As a recreational player, this book didn’t provide much value to me. It seems like the author’s audience are high-level players who might be considering the Mouratoglou Tennis Academy as their training facility. After discussing his childhood for a few chapters, the bulk of the book provides explanations for why relationships with a business partner and a number of promising young players didn’t work out. (And although there are always two sides to these types of stories, it goes without saying that only one side is represented here). The book closes with a couple of chapters on Mouratoglou’s professional relationship with Serena Williams. Given Mouratoglou’s knowledge of the game, I’d love to see him write another book someday focusing on court geometry, tactics and patterns.

It's very much a confidence, belief in yourself and of course putting in a lot of hard work. What I was hoping more of is specifically what the training involved. How many hours a day, what is a typical practice session like, what kind of drills do they do, how does the training differ from one player to another, what is an example of the blueprint a player would do during practice turning a tournament vs. between tournament,,,, these things were not brought up much and would to me be very interesting

As a tennis coach I did find Patrick's book Very inspiring as he touches an inner thoughts and tough decissions coach has to do in a Very difficult environment of professional tennis. Another aspekt is that Patrick did not play professionally himself and in his book he shares his journey of making himself a coach and man he is now. That makes his book completely different from autobiographies of ex players and tennis legends. I guess for tennis fan this book can reveal what goes into making of a tennis player.

Loved the application of this book for life and my executive business coaching as well. Learned a lot about the importance of detail and seeing things as they are to help create a change that could be.

Recommend for young coaches and players of all ages. Great stories about sacrifice and dedication from all parties involved to make a champion.

Genius, passionate about what he does

Great anecdotal advice for helping players to reach their top level. He injects passion into his craft and brings it with him every day in his work.

As translated from French to English there are elements of the story and structure that don't quite connect. Hang in there; the underlying story of one mans' drive and ambition is a compelling read and a great insight into the elite and specialist world of ternnis coaching. This is not a coaching manual, but the life story (so far) of a coach who is extremely successful in his field.

This is a good read for tennis lovers but it could do with being better structured, made longer and updated. He's clearly a very driven character but what about any abject failures - it's all about his successes ? I enjoyed the motivational quotes.

A good account but the plethora of spelling mistakes is very annoying. Can't they afford a proof reader?

Fascinating insight into top coach in the world.

Very interesting personal and professional account of Mouratoglou's life as well as an insight into competitive tennis. Easy to read before passing it on as a gift.Unfortunately the Post Office stuffed the package into our P.O. Box which bent the book so I've ordered a second one for gift giving