Andy Murray Has Hired Amelie Mauresmo As His New Coach For The Grass Season

Wowow, did anyone expect this? Talk of Martina, but Amelie?

Good luck to the new team. Will be interesting.

June 8th, 2014 at 9:15 am

Andy wanna improve and his looking for having more regularity in the slams.
i dont know what its going to happen with amelie but all i see is that he wants to improve

June 8th, 2014 at 11:11 am

what the hell is wrong with you.
let me guess, mum’s advice?

the men’s game is practically a different sport.

June 8th, 2014 at 1:09 pm

yes @roy but maybe he wanna improve in his mentality… amelie can give him that because she won wimbledon

June 8th, 2014 at 1:16 pm

Wow, cool.

June 8th, 2014 at 1:18 pm

Roy, if the men’s and women’s games are so different, how come nobody’s surprised that most of the women have male coaches?

June 8th, 2014 at 1:22 pm

Andy has already been coached for many a formative year by a woman
His mother.
Some have ascribed his feel for the game came from this kind of feminine influence.
Although you would never guess it from Todays shrieking ball bashers.
Interesting is the word i would use.

June 8th, 2014 at 1:25 pm

Amelie has experience winning grand slams and coaching.
She has already coached a man, Michael Llodra, and coached Marianne to the Wimbledon trophy, who’d have ever thought that possible? She coaches Fed Cup
Santoro was talking about her approach and Courier interrupted and said she sounded just like Andy. Lol
Andy has also said she is an excellent tactician.
Only for Wimbledon initially. Interesting.

June 8th, 2014 at 1:35 pm

AM’s website says “initially for the grass court season.” So it sounds like it’s a trial period just like coaches seem usually to have with players. I would guess if it works out, the arrangement will continue… on verra.

June 8th, 2014 at 1:45 pm

Thats true Margot!

June 8th, 2014 at 1:57 pm

@Madmax – it had come up in some of the discussions, but I don’t think anyone thought she was a leading contender.

June 8th, 2014 at 2:09 pm

Reason #976 why Andy Murray is an awesome human being!

June 8th, 2014 at 2:09 pm

Awesome move. I always loved Amelie (her Wimby win against Henin in 2006 is one of my favorite matches) and now she’s coaching my fav player #heaven I’m proud of Andy.

June 8th, 2014 at 2:39 pm

Tennis100 Says:

“yes @roy but maybe he wanna improve in his mentality… amelie can give him that because she won wimbledon”

So did Andy, who has won no fewer slams than Amelie has.

This is surreal.

June 8th, 2014 at 2:44 pm

Coach being male or female doesn’t make any diff IMO….coz’ the coach is not going to play with you, to give you practice and stuff. He/she gonna fix ur mental thing, and may be share a few tricks n trades.

Point is, as long as you are comfortable with him/her and feeling good abt ur game on court, it doesn’t matter if ur coach is a man, woman or a toddler.

Wishing andy all the success, with his favorite time of the season jus arrived.

Go muzza :)

June 9th, 2014 at 4:45 am

http://www.scotsman.com/sport/tennis/mauresmo-can-ensure-serenity-in-andy-murray-s-camp-1-3437389

For Andy fans a gr8 interview with Amelie.
Lol such a fuss about a woman coaching a man! Men will be wanting to coach women soon. Whatever next?

June 9th, 2014 at 7:16 am

Margot, I tought Martina Navratilova it would be his chosen one.
Btw, Andy is my favorite to win Wimbledon again.
Second, is Djokovic.
Then the rest.

June 9th, 2014 at 7:35 am

@Steve 27
Martina’s name has been in the frame, and would’ve been my choice too. Perhaps she had too many commitments and couldn’t travel?
However, I’ve read so many positive comments from Andy and Amelie that I feel very excited by this new partnership and really hope it works. Am wondering if Marianne helped broker the deal? I know she likes Andy a lot. Andy being one of the few male players, the only male player perhaps, who takes an interest in the WTA and tweets about matches.
Andy is your favourite to win Wimbles, but not your favourite, right?

June 9th, 2014 at 12:12 pm

Colin Says:
Roy, if the men’s and women’s games are so different, how come nobody’s surprised that most of the women have male coaches?
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Er er er… Nevermind. LOL!

June 9th, 2014 at 2:41 pm