Essentially the most shocking half is the timing. Murray solely retired from enjoying 4 months in the past. That point has been shared between his household and his golf golf equipment, however as he advised the Management the Controllables podcast final 12 months, if his youngsters are in school, he’s usually bored by Wednesday lunchtime.
The chance to work with Djokovic is unlikely to come back round once more and, having misplaced 4 Melbourne finals to the Serb, he might imagine he won’t ever have a greater probability to win the Australian Open.
Joking apart, there don’t look like many downsides. Djokovic has not at the moment entered any occasions earlier than the Australian Open, so Murray must be free to benefit from the Christmas vacation at dwelling after some work collectively throughout the low season.
Their Melbourne follow classes shall be field workplace, and will probably be enthralling to see how their relationship develops and whether or not Murray could possibly be a characteristic of Djokovic’s crew at a number of the 12 months’s different Grand Slams.
“They at all times bought on effectively, however I do not assume it will have been as shut because it perhaps was once they have been youthful – or it will be now,” Delgado says of their relationship.
“There was simply a lot on the road. However they’d immense respect for one another.
“Andy at all times spoke so extremely of his [Djokovic’s] recreation and the way tough it was to play in opposition to him. The respect was sky excessive.”
The ultimate nice act of their enjoying rivalry was the race to be the year-end world primary in 2016.
“When me and Novak converse with one another, we do not speak about tennis, rankings, the matches we play in opposition to one another,” Murray mentioned earlier that 12 months.
“Possibly once we end enjoying, which may change.”
