Andy Murray will proceed to educate Novak Djokovic by to the French Open – and presumably at Wimbledon.
Djokovic confirmed the Scot had agreed to proceed their partnership, which started within the buildup to final month’s Australian Open. The 24-time grand slam champion mentioned the collaboration was “indefinite”, opening the opportunity of the previous rivals additionally linking up at Wimbledon this summer season.
Djokovic’s Melbourne marketing campaign ended when he needed to retire injured within the semi-final in opposition to Alexander Zverev. Afterwards the 37-year-old mentioned he and Murray would “cool off” earlier than deciding whether or not to proceed collectively.
“We had a chat the day after I completed the match and we mirrored on the interval we spent collectively,” Djokovic instructed the ATP Tour’s media channel. “We agreed he was going to take a while and assume, converse together with his members of the family and see if he decides to maintain working. I expressed my need to proceed the collaboration with him so I’m actually glad he did settle for.
“It’s indefinite by way of how lengthy we’re going to work collectively, however we agreed almost definitely within the States and a few clay-court tournaments. We’ll see the way it goes after that.”
Djokovic is now over his leg damage and is enjoying his comeback match on the Qatar Open in Doha. Murray might then be part of Djokovic at Indian Wells and Miami subsequent month earlier than the clay-court season culminates at Roland Garros in June. Murray, who retired final yr, received the primary of his two Wimbledon titles by beating Djokovic within the 2013 ultimate, one in all 14 profession victories over the Serb.
“He clearly has a singular perspective on my sport,” added Djokovic. “He has performed me and all the present finest gamers on this planet and is aware of everybody nicely. He is aware of precisely what we have to do tactically – the evolution of my sport and what must be improved. He has a constructive strategy and has dealt with the entire stress very nicely as it’s a utterly completely different scenario from being there as a participant.
“He has been terrific with all the opposite workforce members and whereas it was unlucky the way in which the Australian Open completed with damage, we had an excellent run.”
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