LONDON \u2014 Andy Murray says he was \u201cdisappointed\u201d with Novak Djokovic\u2019s results during his time coaching his former rival.<\/p>\n
Murray joined Djokovic\u2019s coaching team in November 2024 just three months after the 38-year-old Scot ended his own playing career at the Paris Olympics.<\/p>\n
But it proved a short six-month partnership as the pair was together for only the Australian Open and five other tournaments this year.<\/p>\n
\u201cI look back on it and I’m glad that I did it,\u201d Murray told The Tennis Podcast.<\/p>\n
“It’s an amazing experience that I’ve 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a good opportunity because I felt I wanted to coach at some stage and if I didn’t take it I might look back and think it would have been really interesting, I could have learned a lot, or potentially regretted it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Djokovic overcame Carlos\u00a0Alcaraz to reach the semifinals at the Australian Open but in the process he tore his left hamstring. The 24-time Grand Slam champion then\u00a0retired after one set\u00a0against Alexander Zverev and was\u00a0booed off the court.<\/p>\n
When he returned, the 38-year-old Serb suffered opening losses in Qatar and Indian Wells. Then he reached the Miami Open final but\u00a0lost to Czech teenager\u00a0Jakub Mensik.<\/p>\n
Murray initially planned to coach Djokovic to the French Open but\u00a0the partnership ended\u00a0in May after first-up defeats on clay in Monte Carlo and Madrid.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was going well initially, and it was unfortunate what happened in Australia with the injury, but I watched him play ridiculous tennis in that tournament,\u201d Murray said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter the injury it was certainly a difficult few months for him but also I think for the team and all of us. 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON \u2014 Andy Murray says he was \u201cdisappointed\u201d with Novak Djokovic\u2019s results during his time coaching his former…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-319626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}