Today in the Grigor Dimitrov box, Daniel Vallverdu had the opportunity to supervise as an assistant coach, Andy Murray, from 2010 to 2014. Together, they notably won two Grand Chelems and the London Olympic Games. In the columns of The News & Observersthe Venezuelan returned to the difficulty of working over time with such a champion.
“I always said that working with Andy for my first coach position was like going to Harvard and spending ten years with the best teachers in the world. Not only experience, but also the requirement that follows every day, you must be 100 %. We stayed together for five years because if you are so sincere and you understand the pressure that exists at this daily level, and especially if you know the ambitions he had to compete with the three big ones and each match was a drama, which you won or lose. It is not possible to be honest with a player for 10 years every day. After four and a half years, the relationship was no longer the same. It is at this point – beyond that I sat with him and that I said to him: “Andy, these years were among the best of my life and I loved being with you on the tour, but I think that if we continue our personal relationship, it will no longer be the same in the future and it would do me a lot of trouble just because of these years of collaboration so close”. It hurt me very much, but after a year or two, the relationship has become what it was before. ”
Posted on Thursday May 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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