Serena Williams is one of the greatest champions in tennis history, and her hunger for more success never fails to amaze. At the start of the 2013 season, Williams’ major goal was to win another French Open title.
She first won the slam on clay in 2002, but then it took her more than a decade to lift the Musketeers Cup again. Serena Williams’ coach Patrick Mouratoglou appeared on the Joe Pomp show, where he told an interesting story about his player.
“I have this story with Serena, it was amazing,” Mouratoglou began, during his interview with Joe Pompliano, as reported by Sportskeeda. “We started working in 2012 and she was having problems then, and then she starts winning, she wins Wimbledon, the US Open and then the year-end Masters.
And then she tells me that she is struggling to win at Roland Garros and that she would like us to make a plan. We then won Roland Garros the following year. She expected to earn it for 11 years without success.
She had won in 2002 and not once until 2013″, revealed the French coach.
Williams won the 2013 Roland-Garros title
Just minutes after winning the French Open in 2013, Williams then turned to Mouratoglou and told him that Wimbledon was next.
“She was right in 2013 wanting to win it after 11 years, right?” Mouratoglou continued. “After the awards ceremony, she stretches and I’m with her at that time.
And then she turns to me after 5 minutes and she’s like, ‘Okay. Now we have to win Wimbeldon’. There, I know that she has already forgotten Roland Garros, the title she has been chasing for 11 years, but it is really an example of the state of mind of champions.
Unfortunately for Williams, she didn’t win Wimbledon that year. She played in the round of 16 before suffering a shock defeat against Sabine Lisicki. The American champion also failed to win Wimbledon in 2014, but went on to win back-to-back titles at Wimbledon 2015 and 2016.
