Essentially the most superb half is the timing. Murray retired 4 months in the past. That point is shared between his household and his golf golf equipment, however as he instructed the Management the Controllables podcast final yr, when his youngsters are at college, he is usually bored by Wednesday lunchtime.
The chance to work with Djokovic is unlikely to come up once more and, having misplaced within the Melbourne closing 4 to Serbia, he might imagine he is not going to have a greater probability of successful the Australian Open.
Joking apart, there would not appear to be a lot of a draw back. Djokovic is at present not competing in some other occasions earlier than the Australian Open, so Murray ought to be free to benefit from the Christmas vacation at house after working collectively in the course of the break.
Their observe classes in Melbourne will likely be packed, and it is going to be attention-grabbing to see how their relationship develops and whether or not Murray might be in Djokovic’s staff for the remainder of the yr’s Grand Slams.
“They at all times bought alongside, however I do not assume it could be as shut because it was after they have been younger – or it is going to be now,” Delgado stated of their relationship.
“There was simply an excessive amount of on the road. However that they had lots of respect for one another.
“Andy spoke extremely of himself [Djokovic’s] recreation and the way tough it was to play in opposition to him. The respect was very excessive.”
The final nice act of their playoff rivalry was the race to be primary on the earth in 2016.
“When Novak and I speak to one another, we do not speak about tennis, the standard, the video games we play in opposition to one another,” Murray stated earlier that yr.
“Perhaps after we end taking part in, which may change.”
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