Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray have not determined whether or not to proceed their player-coach partnership.
Djokovic employed his former rival as his coach for the Australian Open, the place the Serbian reached the semifinal spherical. A thigh damage compelled the No. 7 seed Djokovic to retire Friday after shedding the primary set to No. 2 Alexander Zverev of Germany in a tiebreaker.
Each Djokovic and Murray, a three-time Grand Slam winner, have been noncommittal about whether or not they would proceed to work collectively.
“I do not know. We each have been disenchanted with what simply occurred, so we did not speak in regards to the future steps. We’re so recent off the courtroom,” Djokovic stated in a post-match information convention.
“I will undoubtedly have a chat with Andy and thank him for being right here with me. , give him my suggestions, which is, in fact, optimistic, and see how he feels and we make the following step.
“We’re nonetheless hotheaded and disenchanted, so it is form of onerous to change the web page and begin speaking about what the following steps are. I feel we each want to chill off just a little bit after which we’ll have a chat.”
Murray retired after the Paris Olympics final summer time and informed reporters the expertise on Djokovic’s workforce had been a very good one — and a studying one.
“Clearly there’s a variety of issues that as a participant, you realize issues are completely different whenever you’re teaching, there’s much more that it is advisable assist with when it comes to communication across the workforce,” he stated. “You are not simply interested by your self like you’re whenever you’re a participant. I’ve actually realized so much however there’s much more nonetheless for me to be taught, that is for certain.”
Whereas Djokovic, 37, is ready to play subsequent month on the Qatar Open, it was unclear Friday whether or not his damage would stop that. He stated in his information convention that he tore a muscle in his left thigh throughout his quarterfinal victory over Carlos Alcaraz.
–Discipline Stage Media