{"id":323966,"date":"2025-12-03T01:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T01:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/323966\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T01:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T01:37:11","slug":"some-regrets-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/323966\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Regrets \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>File Andy Murray coaching Novak Djokovic to an Australian Open semifinal that included a victory over Carlos Alcaraz as one of the most incredible moments of the 2025 tennis season.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"610\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Pro-Player-Gear2.jpg\" alt=\"tennis express pro player gear\" class=\"wp-image-54540\" style=\"width:709px;height:auto\"  data-\/>tennis express pro player gear<\/p>\n<p>Though Murray\u2019s high profile partnership with the Serbian icon was sabotaged by Djokovic\u2019s hamstring injury days later, and didn\u2019t make it past May, we can chalk up the all-star pairing as a win for tennis \u2013 and a win for Murray.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look back on it and I\u2019m glad that I did it,\u201d Murray told The Tennis Podcast in an in-depth interview, entitled \u201cThe Big Andy Murray Interview\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an amazing experience that I\u2019ve had. It didn\u2019t last long but I put everything into it. I was disappointed. Probably didn\u2019t get the results I would have liked for him,\u201d Murray continued, during his conversation with Catherine Whitaker, David Law and Matt Roberts.  \u201cIt was a good opportunity because I felt I wanted to coach at some stage and if I didn\u2019t take it I might look back and think it would have been really interesting, I could have learned a lot, or potentially regretted it\u2026 I learned a lot about what coaching is. I was fully invested, tried my hardest to help, and made some good relationships along the way with his team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At one point Murray expressed regret for the way he managed his playing schedule at times. Young stars of the games would be well-served to listen to Murray\u2019s words and heed his regret.<\/p>\n<p>What Murray Would Have Changed<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would have trained slightly differently, I would have taken more breaks, I would have enjoyed the successes more,\u201d he said, indicating that he would have taken more time to enjoy his life on tour and the way it enriched his life. \u201cWhen I won the Olympics in London I flew the next day to Canada to play a Masters there \u2013 terrible decision. I played my first match my body was in bits, it was on a different surface and I got nothing out of doing that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was my best week that I had on a tennis court, and the way that I celebrated was getting on a flight. I did the same thing after Rio, got on a flight that night, flew with Nadal and went to Cincinnati and went and played there, stuff like that I would have definitely done differently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I was coaching a player in that situation now, I would 100 percent stop them from playing and pull them out of that situation completely. [I would tell them] \u201cLet\u2019s take a moment to appreciate what it is that you\u2019ve achieved and worked for, and let\u2019s reset and compete in a couple of weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"File Andy Murray coaching Novak Djokovic to an Australian Open semifinal that included a victory over Carlos Alcaraz&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-323966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323966","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=323966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}