After a conversation with the American, who had been injured for months, “a door opened” for him “at least in the short term” to work with someone else, Mouratoglou said.
Williams suffered a hamstring injury at Wimbledon last year and has not played a match since.
“In the last eight months I’ve realized how much I’ve missed coaching. It’s the passion of my life and I still feel like I have so much to give,” explained the coach of Stefanos Tsitsipas and Coco Gauff.
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The 51-year-old reported that Halep trained at the Mouratoglou Academy in southern France before the tournament in Indian Wells, where she was to reach the semi-finals and lose to eventual winner Iga Swiatek.
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“I stopped by some of her drills and watched her train. At the end of the week she asked me if I would be available to coach her. I have the utmost respect for her, but that was out of the question at the time,” said Mouratoglou. Only after talking to Williams was he able to agree.
At the beginning of February, Halep separated from her two previous coaches, Daniel Dobre and Adrian Marcu.
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