Murray looks back on working with Mauresmo

Andy Murray looked back on working with Amelie Mauresmo as part of the Sky Sports Driving Force programme admitting that she was treated differently due to her gender and that he was mocked for making the decision to work with her.

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"It was in the press that I was considering working with a female coach,’ Murray said.

"I started getting messages from other players, from their coaches, saying “I can’t believe you’re playing this game with the media. You should tell them tomorrow you’re considering working with a dog.”

"I never had experienced that before because I’d never worked with a female coach on the tour. And then it’s kind of spiralled from there that when I started working with her, yeah, there was negative press towards her,” he explains.

‘Every time I lost the match, which was never the case kind of, when I lost matches previously in my career, nobody questioned my coach. In tennis generally, it’s the individual that gets questioned. And that wasn’t the case when I was working with Amelie. It’s one of my regrets that I didn’t win a Grand Slam when I was working with her. And for people, a lot of people, that was considered a failure because I didn’t do that.”