Novak Djokovic surprised by Andy Murray team-up ….see what happened

Djokovic, who lost to Murray in the 2012 US Open final and again at Wimbledon the following year, admitted it was something even he could not have envisaged. “I was going through a process of thinking about next season in the last couple of months,” Djokovic said last month.

“I was trying to figure out what I need at this stage of my career, because I stopped with my (former) coach Goran Ivanisevic, who I was very successful with and worked for many years, in March.

“So I took about six months to really think about if I need a coach and, if yes, who that’s going to be and the profile of the coach. We were going through names and I realised that the perfect coach for me at this point would be someone who has been through the experiences I am going through, possibly a multiple Grand Slam winner, a former (World) No.1

“I was thinking about different people and a discussion about Andy Murray appeared on the table with me and my team. We were like, ‘okay, I’m going to give him a call and see how it goes’. It caught him a little off guard as well because he wasn’t expecting it. We connected really fast and he accepted it after a few days. I can’t be more excited about it.”