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 yr, 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 present entered any occasions earlier than the Australian Open, so Murray needs to be free to benefit from the Christmas vacation at dwelling after some work collectively through the low season.
Their Melbourne follow classes can be field workplace, and will probably be enthralling to see how their relationship develops and whether or not Murray may very well be a characteristic of Djokovic’s crew at a few of the yr’s different Grand Slams.
“They at all times received on properly, however I do not suppose it could have been as shut because it perhaps was after they have been youthful – or it could 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] sport and the way troublesome it was to play towards him. The respect was sky excessive.”
The ultimate nice act of their enjoying rivalry was the race to be the yr finish world primary in 2016.
“When me and Novak communicate with one another, we do not speak about tennis, rankings, the matches we play towards one another,” Murray mentioned earlier that yr.
“Possibly once we end enjoying, which may change.”
