Veteran tennis player Novak Djokovic said that he appointed his former rival Andy Murray as his coach because he knows the former British player very well. Djokovic, who has been playing without a coach for the last six months, has gone there to play a farewell match for Argentine star player Juan Martin del Potro. He and Murray announced last week that they are planning to work together for the Australian Open in January.
Djokovic said before the match against Del Potro, ‘I have played a lot of tennis against him since I used to play in the junior category and there are very few players who have won multiple Grand Slam titles.’ Djokovic is a 24-time Grand Slam champion. He has spent the most weeks at number one than any other player in tennis history. Murray has won three Grand Slam titles and two Olympic singles gold medals. He topped the ATP rankings in 2016. He retired after the Paris Olympics in August.
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Murray and Djokovic are both 37 years old and were born in May 1987, one week apart. They have been playing against each other since the junior category. As professional players, both of them played 36 matches against each other, in which Djokovic won 25 and Murray won 11 matches. Djokovic, who has been playing without a full-time coach since separating from Goran Ivanisevic in March, said, “He understands my game and the situations I have gone through very well. He knows what are the shortcomings in my game.”
Del Potro, the 2009 US Open champion, won the exhibition match at Parque Roca, Buenos Aires, 6-4, 7-5. “We played against each other in the most important matches of our sport, but in the end our friendship was more important than our rivalry,” Djokovic said.
