Serena Williams is an icon of tennis, winning 23 Grand Slam titles and multiple Olympic medals during her esteemed career.
The American star learned her tennis trade in Compton, California, alongside her sister Venus, before going on to become one of the sport’s biggest ever stars.
Williams was dominant throughout her career, rarely going a year without picking up a Grand Slam title.
However, there was a decade-long period where Williams failed to win the French Open. After winning her first title in 2002, the American waited 11 years to win her second Grand Slam title in Paris.
Patrick Mouratoglou, who was coaching Williams at the time, has revealed what the American said immediately after capturing her second French Open title.
Serena Williams said ‘now we have to win Wimbledon’ immediately after winning the 2013 French Open
Patrick Mouratoglou, who has recently parted ways with Naomi Osaka, coached Serena Williams for a decade, between 2012 and 2022.
During their partnership, Serena won 10 Grand Slam singles titles, making this the most prolific partnership of her career.
The Frenchman, who has also coached Simona Halep and Stefanos Tsitsipas, recently spoke about Serena’s French Open title victory in 2013.
On Instagram, Mouratoglou said: “With Serena we started working together in 2012 and in 2012 she wins Wimbledon and the US Open.
“She tells me ‘now I want to achieve another goal, which is to win Roland Garros. I won it only once, in 2002, and I want to win it again.’
“And in 2013, she wins Roland Garros. When she wins, there is a trophy ceremony and when she gets out of the court she comes to me and she says ‘okay, let’s do the cooldown.’
“So we go into the fitness room and after five minutes she looks at me and she says: ‘now we have to win Wimbledon.’
“After five minutes she already forgot that she won Roland Garros, which is a tournament she was trying to win for 10 years. Already focusing on winning the next one, which was Wimbledon.
“This is the mindset of the champions. As soon as they achieve something, they immediately think about a new goal, another one.”
Serena Williams lost to Sabine Lisicki at Wimbledon
After defeating Mandy Minella, Caroline Garcia and Kimiko Date-Krumm without dropping a set, many would have expected Serena Williams to go on and lift her sixth Ladies Singles title at Wimbledon.
However, the American ran into an inspired German player in the fourth round: Sabine Lisicki. The German star stunned Williams in three sets, winning 6-2 1-6 6-4.
Lisicki, the 23rd seed, defeated Kaia Kanepi in the quarter-finals, before beating Agnieszka Radwańska in a marathon semi-final match, winning 9-7 in the third set.
However, Lisicki came up short in the final, losing to Marion Bartoli.
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