The incredible anecdote of Murray in his first training session with Djokovic: "I couldn't say anything, it's embarrassing.."

Carlos Navarro | 1 Dec 2025 | 19.45

Murray trained Djokovic at the beginning of the season.

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The journey of Andy Murray as the coach of Novak Djokovic didn't end up being too long, but it was filled with memorable moments and images that took us back to other times. Note, however, that many anecdotes took place in private... and it is now the Scotsman who, with the perspective that time gives, fondly remembers them. In his last chat with The Tennis Podcast, he confessed amidst laughter that his first training session with the Serbian, now as his coach, was a real nightmare: he started running alongside Novak... and began to feel cramps after five minutes.

"I couldn't say anything because after four or five minutes, it was absolutely embarrassing. Well, I finished, completed the 50 minutes, but I felt an incredible pain. I told his team they had to help me, that I'd been running for 45 minutes and had cramps in my left calf. At that moment, I felt like I couldn't stop, I didn't want to show it, something like: 'Oh, God, I've competed against this person so many times and here I am, cramped up after 5 minutes of running with him.' I had no choice but to overcome it, but it was quite an embarrassing moment for me,", Andy pointed out, recalling with irony his early days with the Serbian.

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