By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennisnow | Wednesday, February 12, 2025
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Two main reasons convinced Andy Murray coach Novak Djokovic.
The two -time Olympic Gold Medal Champion sees Grand Slam King as “one of the best athletes of all time” and believes Djokovic’s training is a once -lived opportunity.
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In a new broad interview with Sports misadventures with Chris Hoy, Murray shares why he agreed to train his former rival, the two biggest demands that he felt the 10-time Australian Open champion in last month’s AO and a champion he would dream of training.
“I consider (Novak) to be one of the best athletes of all time, so that I have the opportunity to help him train him is something I didn’t feel I could not remove because it might not Get that chance (again), ”Murray said Chris Hoy In his podcast. “Who knows how long it will play?”
Although Murray had a well-acquired reputation as one of the most capable men in tennis and one of the most thoughtful and sincere champions in the interview-he shared two surprisingly sought after fields that challenged him in his workout debut down.
Murray said he watched so many videos of Gjokovic’s opponents, he felt drained and tired of “overloading” and said clear communication with the 37-year-old Serbian superstar was an initial challenge even though he felt he improved as the tournament progressed.
“I liked the matches. I liked to sit on my side watching matches from a different perspective,” Murray Chris Hoy told. “I liked the analysis and preparation, planning, strategy and everything. I liked it a lot.
“I’m definitely very inexperienced as coach, so there are many things when you are a player who doesn’t realize that all coaches are thinking and have to do. I’m a poor communicator, it’s something I always fought with but Then when you are part of a team and you are leading the team it is really important that you are communicating well with people and giving them clear directions.
“So I think I did a job in order with this, but I saw it so hard, very demanding. I also did a pretty bad job. I spent a lot of time in my room watching tennis video and almost like over Analysis of matches, like long -to prepare a little, so I found myself tired.
“I did a better job until the end of the tournament with this, like this is a lot. ‘Give yourself a break, go to the gym, go for a walk, go and hit some golf balls.” It was a good experience, I learned a lot from it.
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Asked to choose a legendary Big 3 champion he would dream of training to his maximum, Murray named Grand Slam Champion 20 times Roger Federer.
“This is a great question; I think maybe Roger because I think he is able to do so much with tennis ball,” Murray said. “(Federer) There was so much, so much option, this is one reason that it doesn’t matter who is training those boys on the condition that you give them clear directions …
“I think Roger’s training would be fun because … He just has all the shooting. So you can ask him to do something and he could do it, in essence.”
Listen to the full interview of Andy Murray, including his next tragic period of Dirhea while taking a drug test, on Misadventories Sports with Chris Hoy here.
