Serena Williams and her former coach, Patrick Mouratoglou, made some magic on the tennis court together, but their relationship was not always a walk in the park.

In an interview with The Guardian, Mouratoglou, 55, recalled a fight he had with Williams, 43, after she gave birth to her first daughter, Olympia, in September 2017.

“It was after the pregnancy – not right after; I know these things take time,” Mouratoglou said in the story, published on Thursday, September 11. “I told her, ‘Listen, this is not a comment on how you look. It’s not my problem. But tennis is a sport in which you can’t afford to be overweight.’”

He added, “In Serena’s case, she was older – so of course the body is not going to bounce back the same as before, and the risk of injury is even bigger. We had a few fig

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