Whatever happens in Australia and the rest of 2025, Murray taking the role of Djokovic’s corner man is a unique and somewhat joyful coda to this golden era in the sport
Photograph: Sean M Haffey/Getty ImagesPhotograph: Sean M Haffey/Getty Imagesn June 1990, just minutes after his shocking first-round defeat to upset specialist Derrick Rostagno at Wimbledon, a suddenly aging and forlorn John McEnroe sat down with NBC’s Bud Collins, along with rival Jimmy Connors,. Connors was working for NBC that summer as an analyst while nursing a wrist injury.
But, alas, it wasn’t meant to be. Those few minutes were as far as the coaching proposition went. Years later Connors would remark that shortly after the interview both he and McEnroe decided “to run the other way”.that Andy Murray would be teaming up with Novak Djokovic Further, though Murray is a three-time slam champion himself , and a surefire Hall of Famer, his relationship to Djokovic, as opposed to McEnroe and Connors’ fractious interactions, was never one of co-equals; Djokovic, Federer and Nadal are obviously in a world of their own and the whole notion of there ever being a “Big Four”, as it was coined early on, was false, as well as an unfair burden on Murray. There was the Big Three with an occasional plus-one .
The sporting world is littered with great players who couldn’t transfer their successes from the playing arenas to the coaching box. Consider Ted Williams. Inarguably the greatest hitter to have ever lived, Williams was also a passionate teacher and he fulfilled a personal dream when he became the manager of the less-than-mediocre Washington Senators in 1969, winning the Manager of the Year award his first year.
But why is this? Why is it so hard for those that perfected their craft in competition to pass on their gifts to their eager students? Malcolm Gladwell, the popular writer of The Tipping Point, who specializes in research at the intersection of the social sciences had a theory. While speaking to ESPN promoting his book 2005 book Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, which focused on the effectiveness of instinctive vs.
There is a kind of middle-ground, what I’d call the B-plus category of very good players - but not truly great - who also became stellar managers. The most obvious example of this is Joe Torre. Though the back page of the Daily News tabloid headline infamously read “Clueless Joe” upon the Yankees hiring Torre in November 1995, he went on to become a 4-time World Series champion with the Yankees and is in the Hall of Fame because of it.
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