File Andy Murray coaching Novak Djokovic to an Australian Open semifinal that included a victory over Carlos Alcaraz as one of the most incredible moments of the 2025 tennis season.
Though Murray’s high profile partnership with the Serbian icon was sabotaged by Djokovic’s hamstring injury days later, and didn’t make it past May, we can chalk up the all-star pairing as a win for tennis – and a win for Murray.
“I look back on it and I’m glad that I did it,” Murray told The Tennis Podcast in an in-depth interview, entitled “The Big Andy Murray Interview”.
“It’s an amazing experience that I’ve had. It didn’t last long but I put everything into it. I was disappointed. Probably didn’t get the results I would have liked for him,” Murray continued, during his conversation with Catherine Whitaker, David Law and Matt Roberts. “It was a good opportunity because I felt I wanted to coach at some stage and if I didn’t take it I might look back and think it would have been really interesting, I could have learned a lot, or potentially regretted it… I learned a lot about what coaching is. I was fully invested, tried my hardest to help, and made some good relationships along the way with his team.”
At one point Murray expressed regret for the way he managed his playing schedule at times. Young stars of the games would be well-served to listen to Murray’s words and heed his regret.
What Murray Would Have Changed
“I would have trained slightly differently, I would have taken more breaks, I would have enjoyed the successes more,” he said, indicating that he would have taken more time to enjoy his life on tour and the way it enriched his life. “When I won the Olympics in London I flew the next day to Canada to play a Masters there – terrible decision. I played my first match my body was in bits, it was on a different surface and I got nothing out of doing that.
“That was my best week that I had on a tennis court, and the way that I celebrated was getting on a flight. I did the same thing after Rio, got on a flight that night, flew with Nadal and went to Cincinnati and went and played there, stuff like that I would have definitely done differently.
“If I was coaching a player in that situation now, I would 100 percent stop them from playing and pull them out of that situation completely. [I would tell them] “Let’s take a moment to appreciate what it is that you’ve achieved and worked for, and let’s reset and compete in a couple of weeks.”
