Mauresmo, who is France’s Fed Cup captain, had her first child last August ahead of Murray’s bid to win a second U.S. Andy Murray wants Amelie Mauresmo to remain as his coach for the 'foreseeable future'. Upon hiring Mauresmo, Murray said he has always had a strong female influence in his career, with his mother Judy – former captain of Great Britain’s Fed Cup team – the one to get him into the sport. “Well, if being a feminist is about fighting so that a woman is treated like a man then yes, I suppose I have.” “Have I become a feminist?” Murray wrote in French sport paper L’Equipe. Andy Murray tells how coach Amlie Mauresmo revealed her pregnancy 'We were actually going to chat about the next couple of weeks,' Murray said. The 2012 Olympic champion last year declared himself a feminist after several leading figures in the game criticized his decision to hire a woman. Mauresmo is only the second woman to coach a top-10 player, however, after Tatiana Naumko, who guided the career of the Russian world No9 Andrei Chesnokov in the 90s.Murray talks with Mauresmo during a practice session for Wimbledon in 2014. When Andy Murray hired Amélie Mauresmo as his coach he was hailed as a standard-bearer for sexual equality for having the courage to break the mould. Mauresmo joins Anastasia Kukushkina, who married the Kazakh player Mikhail Kukushkin, and Denis Istomin’s mother, Klaudiya, who has been with him for several years.
Women coaches are rare on the men’s tour. He’s an amazingly talented tennis player and I feel I have plenty to offer both him and the team around him.” Speaking at Roland Garros, where she watched Rafael Nadal beat Novak Djokovic in four sets in the French Open final, Mauresmo added: “I’m really excited to be able to work with Andy. Everyone I know talks very highly of Amélie, as a person and coach, and I’m convinced that her joining the team will help us push on. “I have a very strong coaching team already in place but I think Amélie brings with her experience and tactical expertise and will push us all to improve. She’s faced adversity plenty of times in her career but was an amazing player and won major titles. I think it’s exciting, something a bit new for me, something a bit fresh and hopefully it works well.”Įarlier, en route to training at Queen’s, he said: “Amélie is someone I have always looked up to and admired. “Obviously I wasn’t paying my Mum so it’ll be a little bit different this time around because I’ll be employing Amélie. For me it doesn’t feel like a very different thing. “I obviously worked with my Mum for a long time and then even periods when I was 16, 17 years old. W hen Amlie Mauresmo won Wimbledon, in 2006, she was 27 years old as it happens, the same age that Murray is now. If you’re interested in chatting to me, let me know. I’m looking for a coach at the moment, it said. I think we will communicate well together and I think that’s a very important part of coaching. Just before the French Open, Andy Murray sent a text to a woman named Amlie Mauresmo. Just from speaking to her, she’s very calm, she’s a good person. Wednesday 25 November 2020 13:25, UK Andy Murray and Amelie Mauresmo had a two-year period together as player and coach 'To me, it was a bit of a no-brainer.' For Andy Murray, hiring. She won Wimbledon, she was world No1, won the Australian Open. We’ll try during the grass-court and hopefully we’ll both enjoy it. There was a will from both sides to give it a go and see how it works out. Andy Murray appreciated the presence of his coach, Amélie Mauresmo, and her young son, in his preparations for the start of the Australian Open Skip to main content Skip to navigation Print. We chatted a little bit about it, whether she’d be up for doing it. Murray said: “I spoke to her a few times on the phone and when I was in Paris I met her before the tournament. They will talk again after Wimbledon, the Scot and the Frenchwoman, tennis’s equivalent of the Auld Alliance between the two countries, perhaps – a partnership dripping in symbolism before Scotland’s vote on independence in September. If it’s half-time, half a year, that’s not bad.”įor the benefit of English-speaking journalists earlier she described her commitment as “a significant amount of weeks that we have agreed on and should be good for everyone”. Both agree that, if they click, they will extend the arrangement but Mauresmo, who organises a tournament in Toulouse, captains the French Federation Cup team and works as a commentator for Eurosport, told French journalists: “No, I don’t want to work full-time.
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