{"id":129218,"date":"2025-05-24T23:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T23:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/129218\/"},"modified":"2025-05-24T23:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T23:29:07","slug":"andy-murray-tipped-to-quit-coaching-as-john-mcenroe-expected-screaming-matches-tennis-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/129218\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Murray tipped to quit coaching as John McEnroe expected ‘screaming matches’ | Tennis | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tennis legend John McEnroe<\/a> revealed he expected \u201cscreaming matches\u201d between Andy Murray<\/a> and Novak Djokovic<\/a> while the pair were working together. Murray was announced as Djokovic\u2019s coaching partner at the back end of last year, with the pair working together up until earlier this month.<\/p>\n

It was a partnership that started out on a strong foot, with Djokovic reaching the semi-finals of the Australian Open<\/a> before an injury forced him to withdraw. From that point on, poor form and injuries marred Djokovic\u2019s start to 2025, meaning the two tennis icons ended their cooperation without a tournament win to their name.<\/p>\n

Despite that, McEnroe was pleasantly surprised with how things worked out. Speaking ahead of the French Open, the American mused: \u201cWhen it first happened, I laughed and thought \u2018You have got to be kidding me\u2019. It would be like Ivan Lendl coached me. They\u2019re rivals. But it was fun, I was waiting for them to go at it on the sideline start screaming at each other because they\u2019ve done that to coaches they\u2019ve had in their careers.\u201d<\/p>\n

The announcement raised eyebrows at the time, given it came just months after Murray had hung up his racket following defeat in the doubles tournament at the 2024 Olympic Games. And on the back of the pair going their separate ways, McEnroe believes Murray will take some time away from the sport altogether to refocus his family life.<\/p>\n

The seven-time singles Grand Slam champion explained: \u201cWould Andy be a good coach? I believe he would be because he knows the game inside out. If he wants to do that, I think he\u2019d be really good.”<\/p>\n

On whether Murray will take some time away from the coaching game, he added: \u201cI can\u2019t tell you right now who I think he\u2019d coached, he\u2019s got young children, so he was travelling all the time. So I\u2019m guessing he doesn\u2019t want to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for his former partner in crime, Djokovic, the Serb wrapped up his preparations for the upcoming French Open in perfect style by beating Hubert Hurkacz in the final of the Geneva Open in Switzerland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the first title of any kind Djokovic has won since taking gold at last summer\u2019s Olympics and marks the 100th career victory for the 38-year-old, becoming just the third men\u2019s player to reach triple figures. Next on his agenda is another shot at history: becoming the first tennis player of any gender to win 25 Grand Slam titles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tennis legend John McEnroe revealed he expected \u201cscreaming matches\u201d between Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic while the pair…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[5233,4719,5066,13793,57012,4295,79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-129218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-andy-murray","9":"tag-atp-tour","10":"tag-french-open","11":"tag-john-mcenroe","12":"tag-murray-coaching","13":"tag-novak-djokovic","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-tennis","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114565412688399289","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}