Patrick Mouratoglou's Tennis Academies in the USA — Where They Actually Are in 2026

Patrick Mouratoglou is best known as Serena Williams's longtime coach and the founder of the original Mouratoglou Academy in Nice, France — one of the most recognized names in professional coaching. Since 2024, his academy brand has expanded rapidly onto US soil through a series of partnerships and club openings, which has left a fair amount of confusion online about what's actually operating in the United States versus what's based overseas. Here's what's real and where it actually is as of 2026.

The original academy is in France, not the US

Mouratoglou's flagship academy remains the Mouratoglou Academy on the French Riviera, near Nice — the facility where he coached Williams and where his core full-time junior and pro training programs are based. Any article or listing that treats a US location as "the" Mouratoglou Academy is describing a satellite site, not the original.

Confirmed US locations

Since 2024, Mouratoglou-branded tennis centers have opened or been announced at several US sites, each operating as a licensed center offering lessons, clinics, and camps rather than a full-time boarding academy on the scale of the Nice campus:

• Naples, Florida — a Mouratoglou Tennis Center at The Ritz-Carlton Naples, Tiburón, described as his first dedicated teaching facility in the state, offering clinics and youth development programs primarily for resort guests and members.
• Zephyrhills, Florida — a larger academy site near Tampa, announced as part of the brand's US expansion, offering camps and a school-integrated program.
• Noblesville, Indiana — a Mouratoglou Tennis Center announced in March 2026, with construction beginning that May and a planned opening in the second half of 2026, featuring 6 indoor tennis courts, 8 padel courts, and 4 indoor futsal pitches alongside private lessons and seasonal camps.
• Hackensack, New Jersey and Horseshoe Bay, Texas — both listed on the Mouratoglou brand's own site with tennis camps, workshops, and pickleball.
• Atlanta, Georgia — developed in partnership with Atlanta International School starting in 2024, combining the Mouratoglou coaching methodology with an integrated school program — the first Mouratoglou-branded site in Georgia.

Confirm current hours, enrollment status, and program details directly with each location before assuming any of the above specifics still apply, since several of these are recent openings and program details can change quickly.

Who Patrick Mouratoglou is

Before the brand expansion, Mouratoglou was already one of the most recognized coaches in tennis, best known for his decade-long partnership with Serena Williams from 2012 to 2022, during which she won 10 Grand Slam titles. He's also worked with other top players over the years and remains a visible media presence around the sport, including regular commentary and coaching appearances at majors like the US Open. That coaching reputation — built entirely in France and on tour, not at a US facility — is the foundation the US center expansion is now being built on top of.

What this is not

A separate, unrelated project — "Mouratoglou Academy Australia at CORA," a planned facility near Geelong, Victoria — occasionally gets confused with the US expansion in search results. That project is not in the United States, is not yet built, and as of early 2026 had reportedly been put up for sale by its developer rather than moving toward completion. It has no bearing on the US locations described above and isn't relevant if you're specifically researching US-based options.

How the US centers differ from each other

The US locations aren't uniform. Some, like the Naples center at The Ritz-Carlton Tiburón, are built around resort access and are oriented toward guests and members rather than a standalone junior development pipeline. Others, like the Atlanta site developed with Atlanta International School, are explicitly structured around combining the Mouratoglou coaching methodology with a school's academic program — closer in spirit to a boarding-academy model, though still newer and smaller in scale than an established program like IMG or Evert. The Noblesville, Indiana center is notable for its scale relative to a typical satellite location — 6 indoor tennis courts plus 8 padel courts and 4 futsal pitches — suggesting a larger multi-sport community-facility model rather than a pure tennis-development center. Families should treat each location as its own program with its own structure, rather than assuming consistency across the brand simply because they share a name.

How these compare to a full-time US boarding academy

None of the current US Mouratoglou locations appear to operate as a full-time, year-round boarding academy on the model of IMG Academy or Evert Tennis Academy — they're structured as clinic-, camp-, and lesson-based centers, several attached to resorts or partner schools rather than standalone residential campuses. If your family is specifically looking for full-time boarding enrollment with an integrated academic program, compare these centers' actual offerings directly against dedicated boarding academies in this directory before assuming equivalence based on the name recognition alone.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can my child enroll full-time at a Mouratoglou academy in the US?

Based on what's publicly available, the US locations are structured around lessons, clinics, and camps rather than full-time boarding enrollment — confirm directly with the specific location you're considering, since program structures can change as sites mature.

Is the Mouratoglou Academy in Australia open yet?

No — the planned Australian project at CORA (Modewarre, Victoria) is not built and, as of early 2026, was reportedly being marketed for sale by its developer rather than progressing toward an opening.

Where did Patrick Mouratoglou coach Serena Williams?

At his original academy on the French Riviera near Nice, France, which remains the flagship site for the brand.