{"id":167671,"date":"2025-09-25T08:07:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T08:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/167671\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T08:07:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T08:07:04","slug":"the-reason-why-jannik-sinners-coach-couldnt-commit-to-working-with-andy-murray-full-time-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/167671\/","title":{"rendered":"The reason why Jannik Sinner’s coach couldn’t commit to working with Andy Murray full-time in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Currently the coach of Jannik Sinner, Darren Cahill has worked with some of the very best players in tennis over the years.<\/p>\n

The Australian worked with his countryman Lleyton Hewitt<\/a> during the early 2000s, guiding him to the world number one ranking and the 2001 US Open title.<\/p>\n

Cahill then joined Andre Agassi\u2019s<\/a> team, helping him win his eighth and final Grand Slam title at the 2003 Australian Open.<\/p>\n

A successful stint alongside Simona Halep followed in the late 2010s, before he became Sinner\u2019s<\/a> coach in 2022.<\/p>\n

\"JannikPhoto by Quinn Rooney\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

He also helped out several other players, as a member of the Adidas Player Development Program, including three-time major champion Andy Murray<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Despite enjoying their time together, Cahill<\/a> never joined Murray\u2019s team on a full-time basis.<\/p>\n

Murray\u2019s mother, Judy Murray<\/a>, has now explained why.<\/p>\n

Appearing as a guest on \u2018The Sit Down<\/a>\u2018 podcast, Murray recalled the reason why Cahill didn\u2019t join the Brit\u2019s team in 2014.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Andy Murray was looking for someone new to guide him on the coaching side. He took advice from Darren Cahill, and it was Darren Cahill who had suggested Ivan [Lendl] to Andy some years before, and that had turned out to be a relationship that bore a lot of fruit for Andy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cDarren was an advisory coach on the Adidas programme when Andy was an Adidas athlete, so he had access to Darren for quite a number of months, not full-time, but quite a lot, and he really enjoyed working with him.<\/p>\n

\"DarrenPhoto by Andy Cheung\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cBut Darren wasn\u2019t available to do that because he was doing a lot of commentary work at that time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unable to coach Murray himself, Cahill advised him on who he should hire instead.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe suggested Amelie [Mauresmo],\u201d said Murray.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo Andy went and met Amelie for lunch and really enjoyed her company, I don\u2019t think they were talking about tennis all the time, I think they talked about all sorts of other things, but what I remember him saying to me was, how much he enjoyed the fact that she listened to him, she asked him questions and she listened to him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think he had probably had a number of coaches that didn\u2019t listen, who tell, tell, tell, and he was really at a stage where he wanted to have more of a say in the direction of what he was doing with his game. He really enjoyed that.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s one of the things you tend to find with female coaches, you don\u2019t find egos, you do find listening, nurturing, caring, softer skills perhaps.\u201d<\/p>\n

Choosing to hire Mauresmo as his coach, Murray quickly realised the magnitude of the decision he had just made.<\/p>\n

\"AndyPhoto credit should read WILLIAM WEST\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cThey decided to give it a try, and of course, for him, it had nothing to do with gender; it was to do with her skillset. She\u2019d been a Grand Slam champion and a number one, had a wonderful variety and feel in her game. They decided to do it, and she brought a different perspective. They became great friends,\u201d said Murray.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe [Murray] was quite shocked by the reaction of some of his fellow pros and some sections of the media.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe realised very quickly that if he wasn\u2019t as successful or more successful with Amelie, then she was going to come in for a really tough time.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that opened his eyes again for how tough it is for women to work at the top of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the pressure on, how did Murray perform with Mauresmo as his coach?<\/p>\n

Andy Murray\u2019s record with Amelie Mauresmo as coach<\/p>\n

Working together between 2014 and 2016, Murray and Mauresmo won seven titles.<\/p>\n

TournamentSurfaceFinal opponentScore2014 Shenzhen OpenHardTommy Robredo5-7, 7-6, 6-12014 Vienna OpenHard (Indoor)David Ferrer5-7, 6-2, 7-52014 Valencia OpenHard (Indoor)Tommy Robredo3-6, 7-6, 7-62015 Bavarian ChampionshipsClayPhilipp Kohlschreiber7-6, 5-7, 7-62015 Madrid OpenClayRafael Nadal6-3, 6-22015 Queen\u2019s Club ChampionshipsGrassKevin Anderson6-3, 6-42015 Canadian OpenHardNovak Djokovic6-4, 4-6, 6-3Titles Andy Murray won with Amelie Mauresmo as his coach<\/p>\n

Murray was, however, unable to add to his Grand Slam tally during this period, losing two major finals.<\/p>\n

2015 Australian Open F \u2013 Lost to Novak Djokovic2016 Australian Open F \u2013 Lost to Novak Djokovic<\/p>\n

After they split in 2016, the Brit then began working with Sweden\u2019s Jonas Bj\u00f6rkman, while Mauresmo took a break from coaching before joining her countryman Lucas Pouille in 2019.<\/p>\n

Upon retirement, Murray took his first step into coaching, teaming up with the 24-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic, although their partnership was short-lived.<\/p>\n

Mauresmo now works as a tournament director for the French Open and seems to be done with coaching, at least for now\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Currently the coach of Jannik Sinner, Darren Cahill has worked with some of the very best players in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[3581,753,64,63,110006,754,110007,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-167671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-andy-murray","9":"tag-atp","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-darren-cahill","13":"tag-jannik-sinner","14":"tag-judy-murray","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}