{"id":382230,"date":"2026-01-21T13:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T13:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/382230\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T13:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T13:08:07","slug":"andy-murray-complains-about-australian-open-coverage-as-john-mcenroe-makes-request-tennis-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/382230\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Murray complains about Australian Open coverage as John McEnroe makes request | Tennis | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andy Murray<\/a> was quick to call out the TNT Sports coverage of the Australian Open<\/a>, even going as far as texting into the show. The legendary tennis ace hung up his racket for good in 2024, but is still very much a keen watcher of the sport he knows and loves.<\/p>\n

Impressed with what he saw, Murray evidently believed the punditry team wasn\u2019t giving him enough praise. Speaking on Wednesday’s TNT Sports broadcast, Robson revealed: \u201cHe [Learner Tien] has got some big fans because I have a text from Andy Murray who was watching and mentioned that we weren\u2019t speaking enough about Learner Tien.\u201d<\/p>\n

John McEnroe<\/a> was quick to jump in, telling Murray: \u201cCome on down and visit.\u201d<\/p>\n

It comes after Murray was tipped to make the move into punditry, as the BBC look for ways to innovate its Wimbledon coverage<\/a>. Since retiring, the four-time Grand Slam champion joined former rival Novak Djokovic\u2019s coaching team for a stint, but otherwise has refrained from any tennis-related jobs.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Express Sport earlier this month, Robson urged Murray to try his hand at punditry<\/a>, saying: “I\u2019ve told him I\u2019d like to see it! Every time I see him, I\u2019m like: \u2018When are you coming on?\u2019 But no, I think he\u2019s just happy to play golf at the minute.<\/p>\n

“Eventually, maybe he might find some joy in trying it out. I think he\u2019s very settled at home, but if he eventually decides to do it, I know he\u2019d be great and he would kill it in any sort of analyst role. I know he thinks that men\u2019s matches are too long to commentate on as well. So let\u2019s maybe throw him a women\u2019s match and see how that goes.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andy Murray was quick to call out the TNT Sports coverage of the Australian Open, even going as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[6764,21399,15928,15929,101,118,20750,872,61916,144875,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-382230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-andy-murray","tag-australian-open","tag-john-mcenroe","tag-learner-tien","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-latest","tag-tennis-news","tag-tnt-sports","tag-tnt-sports-australian-open","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}