PaulM wrote:

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philwrig wrote:

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I thought initially he had success with Pav and Rezai has only gone backwards since the split with PM at the end of last year.

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The key word their is "initially". Pav was successful to start with because, like de Brito, she just blew everyone off court. But as she started to climb, her game was found wanting. She was completely one dimensional and had nothing to go to when it didn't work.

 

She sacked him, got a new coach, and by the end of the year was making waves with a more rounded, complete game. The Pav we have today is nothing like the Pav Mouratoglou was creating from 07 through to summer 09.

 

Rezai and de Brito were made and broken by what Mouratoglou believes is the ideal player. Both are where they are now because of what he made them. They have nothing else to offer other than to smack the ball as hard as they can, because that is all he ever teaches.

 

Whether or not they can find new coaches who can instill good technique, finesse and a more rounded game like Pav did, only time will tell. But if you want to know why Rezai and de Brito broke through for about 6months and then began fading away, it lies with the method, technique and ideas of one man.

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 So I think we agree that if he has any positive impact it is only short term. I remember him slating MLDB in a blog a while back, saying she would never make it as a tennis player, so hopefully he won't do anything similar with Laura.