Essentially the most stunning 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 informed the Management the Controllables podcast final yr, if his youngsters are at college, he’s typically 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 ought to be free to benefit from the Christmas vacation at dwelling after some work collectively through the low season.
Their Melbourne observe classes will probably be field workplace, and it is going to be enthralling to see how their relationship develops and whether or not Murray might be a characteristic of Djokovic’s group at a number of the yr’s different Grand Slams.
“They at all times obtained on properly, however I do not assume it might have been as shut because it perhaps was once they had been youthful – or it might 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 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 yr finish 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 stated earlier that yr.
“Possibly after we end enjoying, which may change.”