They practised together at a training camp in Dubai at the end of previous year and were then together for the whole of January. I’m glad I’ve got that now, which I didn’t a year ago with Jonas and Amélie.
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“I think the end of past year we tried to make it work”.
Both insist the decision was mutual with Mauresmo struggling to commit the time to their partnership Murray required following the birth of her first son in August.
Had he therefore considered extending the relationship with her at least until the middle of the summer?
“In my opinion, it’s nothing to do with Amelie being a woman”, said Murray. Those periods were going to continue happening through the year.
“Too many people were quick to say when Amelie was first appointed just before the 2014 Wimbledon, ‘Oh, a lady working with a man”.
When Andy Murray took onAmelie Mauresmo as his coach, the first high profile ATP star to do so, many eyebrows were raised.
“Murray was not unbeatable today”, Nadal said.
The 56-year-old has contemplated offers from the likes of Tomas Berdych and Grigor Dimitrov in the last two years but he refused to dismiss a reunion with Murray when asked yesterday. I was not doing well. I felt so, so bad and I felt like I was going to collapse.
“When she came on board, my results actually really picked up”, Murray added.
Djokovic, an 11-time major champion, retains his massive lead on his closest challengers at the top of the rankings after claiming a record 29th Masters title.
“It’s nothing to do with Amélie being a woman”.
The world number one had not dropped a set all tournament prior to the final and that will be some consolation to Murray, who knows he now trails both his conqueror and Roger Federer in the rankings ahead of Roland Garros.
Andy Murray and his coach Amelie Mauresmo have agreed to end their two-year working relationship, the British world number three said on Monday. Well, today mentally I think I was okay. I think when I showed the confidence in her, she was really passionate and pumped and really wanted to make it work. Ill take some time to consider the next steps and how we progress from here. “I believe I can play well on clay now”. “It’s an achievement that I’m very proud of”. This was a good match: not only did they genuinely get on, but they also saw eye to eye on most technical tennis issues. They are mates, and I can see that working longer term.
The 28-year-old surrendered that crown to top seed Djokovic on Sunday, but only after pushing the Serb hard to force a tight deciding set.
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Murray arrived in Rome after losing the Madrid final as defending champion against Novak Djokovic. This makes Murray the favourite to take back the second position in time for the French Open. Djokovic beat Andy Murray and clinched the title and stood World No.1, Murray mentioned this is his 12th defeat over 13 meetings with Djokovic.
