When he is seen in the press room of Roland Garros on his way to one of the warm-up courts with Coco Gauff, Patrick Moratoglou (Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1970) moves with the speed of an athlete and the gesture at once relaxed and severe of a statesman. Not surprisingly, we are facing one of the great characters of the world of tennis over the last two decades, the man who, in addition to projecting the immense career of Serena Williams, has in his care men like Holger Rune, Stefanos Tsitsipas or Alexei Popyrin, and women of the draft of the young Gauff or the already veteran Simona Halep, Now immersed in a stormy process for doping.

Omnipresent, whether in the box of some of his outstanding disciples, as a consultant, until not long ago a television commentator or at the head of the academy born in Paris in 1996 and based for seven years in Biot, 20 kilometers from Nice, where they learn, train and study about 200 young aspiring to be someone in this sport, Moratoglou has the aura of a guru, although his eye and his predictions sometimes do not refine at all.

Their website is a proclamation of the many accumulated merits. The accountant advances to 10 Grand Slam titles with the youngest of the Williams, who was one away from Margaret Court's 24, the global of 33 individual titles as a coach, the recognitions on four occasions as best coach of the year and different images of his multifaceted and influential character, All this with its multiplied silhouette, either in work clothes or dress etiquette and with the interactive character and the suggestion to hire any of its multiple services.

Youth Promise

This billionaire of Greek origin who promised as a youth but left tennis to study at the university, by paternal imposition, spends ways of divo. It has a press office that tries to persuade the media with which it accepts an interview of the appropriate image that they should publish, choosing the best profile picture, the precise gesture, the presumably cinematographic look and the appropriate scenario where the supposed magnetism of the protagonist can show.

Moratoglou is a brand in itself, a name from which to seek projection from adolescence, as is the case of Rune, although she has stopped traveling with the Dane to all tournaments, or renewed stimuli in maturity, as is the case with the now controversial Halep. Despite the rumors that circulated at the beginning of the year about his professional break, in the corner of Tsitsipas, fifth in the ranking, who on Wednesday achieved the pass to the third round after beating the Spanish Roberto Carballés, Patrick is usually found, next to Apostolos, his father, once the collaboration with Mark Philippoussis ended.

However, on the way to 25 years, Tsitsipas, who has been in his academy since his junior stage, has ceased to be the jewel in the crown and has distanced himself from him after frustrated attempts to sign a major. Now it is the rebellious Rune, sixth in the world, on whom Moratoglou's greatest illusions of renewing in a big way the indisputable credit acquired by relaunching Serena's career rest.

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