Andy Murray-Ivan Lendl chapter three is happening.
Starting after the upcoming Miami Open, Ivan Lendl will be a part of Murray’s coaching team for the third time. The announcement was made last week as the 34-year-old prepares for upcoming Masters 1000 events in Indian Wells and Miami. Lendl will join Murray in preparation for the grass-court swing, as the former world No. 1 is not playing on clay this season.
Murray has secured all three of his Grand Slam titles under Lendl, with whom the current world No. 88 first joined forces in 2012. They did not have to wait long for a U.S. Open triumph (2012) and Murray went on to win Wimbledon, as well, in 2013. Following a 2014 split, they linked back up in 2016–leading to Murray’s second success at the All-England Club.
The Scot has been in the market for a full-time coach since the end of last year, when Jamie Delgado left to join Denis Shapovalov’s team. Murray had a brief trial period with Jan De Witt, but a couple of early exits–including at the hands of Taro Daniel in round two of the Australian Open–dissolved that experiment before it developed into anything more than a trial.
Murray has lost in the second round of four consecutive tournaments after beginning the 2022 campaign with a first-round ouster at a 250 in Melbourne and a runner-up performance in Sydney.
Will the Sunshine Double in Indian Wells and Miami bring some form of consistency and momentum? It’s possible. Murray is a former Indian Wells finalist (lost to Rafael Nadal in 2009) and he is a two-time champion in Miami–where he often spends a lot of time during the offseason.
Outside the cut line at entry deadline for Indian Wells and Miami, Murray has wild cards into both tournaments.
thoughts?
If I remember Andy won the 2016 Queens Club when Lendl was his coach and then Wimbledon .No reason why he cant repeat again at least one of those .
i mean he isn’t winning Wimbledon
so I guess it’ll have to be Queen’s Club!
I’ll settle for Queens
Big Al, done deal! I have no idea if it’s realistic. But I have developed a fondness for Murray and only wish him well.
The tennis youtuber Gil Gross – who is actually very good and knowledgeable – analysed recently with the help of a computer program, how the history of tennis would have unfolded in an alternative universe without the Big Three. The results were very interesting. There would be many more one-slam wonders, and Roddick could have won up to six slams in a world without Fed, Rafa and Novak. Delpo would not have been much more successful, because he was missing in action for long periods of his career, but he might’ve won another slam trophy. But it’s
not really a surprise that Murray turned out to be the main victim of the Big Three. Without them he could have won up to 17 slams, and he would have probably completed the coveted career slam in 2016! In that universe Murray would have been more successful than Sampras, and we might call him the GOAT! Murray used to be totally reliable, and he normally made it into the latter stages of many slams. But even if he managed to take out one of the Big Three now and then, he usually became a victim of another member of the illustrious trio.
This interesting hypothetical scenario shows that it was not wrong to speak about the Big Four for a while. Murray didn’t win more slams than Wawrinka, but he was nevertheless in a totally different league.
I know, but I didn’t like when Murray beat Wawrinka in FO 2016 Semi..lol. He was pretty much being a runner up maid for Nole.. Like Venus was for Serena
Being German, my tennis big bang happened at Wimbledon 1985 when I was a girl: the 17 years old Becker won his first of three Wimby trophies, and for a glorious decade Germany became a big tennis nation. I think it’s still a somewhat underrated achievement that Becker who was still a teenager, actually managed to defend his title one year later – and none other than Lendl was his opponent in the 1086 final. Thus I caught up with the final years of Lendl’s career. He and Becker had quite a few memorable matches against each other. At the time Lendl wasn’t really well liked by players or fans, and the media loved to publish some really bizarre stories about his private life style. He tried apparently to build up this image as the tough guy with whom nobody was allowed to mess around – neither oncourt nor privately. It’s also true that his style of tennis was not exactly spectacular. But at the time he had the deserved reputation of being one of the fittest players on the tour.
I started to like Lendl much better when he coached Murray and the two of them finally managed to win Wimbledon. This trophy had been elusive so far for both of them. Together they made history and fulfilled their dream, and when Lendl was actually caught smiling – at least a little bit – it was very touching.
I have no idea why Lendl agreed to coach Murray again. There’s no hope at all that they can win another slam trophy. Therefore I have to assume that they might actually like each other! Maybe, Lendl is impressed by Murray’s grit and tenacity! This is something which Lendl would really appreachiate.
Yes I saw Lendl smiling and even dancing for joy when Andy won. Nice to see he’s got another side to him.I was a fan because he got revenge on McEnroe whom I didn’t like back then for obvious reasons
😀!
We know now that Lendl actually has a wry sense of humor! A trait which he shares with Murray. I saw a few Youtube clips of Murray making fun of himself and his image which were screamingly funny.
Didn’t Lendl coach Zverev for a few weeks and they split because of mutual dislike? I’m sure that Lendl doesn’t regret this decision 😉
A personality clash for sure.
Interview with Zverev at the airport recently smiling as if he was trying to laugh the whole thing off
I think the ATP was ridiculously lenient 😞