Djokovic beat the Scot in most of their matches, but Murray believes he knows the way to make coaching the record-breaking grand slam event winner work.
“He wanted an opponent to coach him,” Murray says. “I was shocked, obviously. I had no interest in doing any coaching at that moment. I’d retired. I was really enjoying my home life.Credit:“But I also was not expecting one of the best athletes of all time to ask me to help them, either.”
“We are similar. There’s just a mutual understanding of what it takes and when he has frustrations on the court, I am sympathetic and empathetic to that because I know what it’s like,” Murray says.Getty Images There was one issue in the pair’s working relationship: Murray had signed on as an ambassador for Uber Eats and had committed to not only filming an ad campaign but backing it up during the Australian Open with public appearances for the brand.
The image of Murray as a dour Scot is one that verges on cliche, but there is no doubt that as a tennis player, he was deadly serious on court.
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