Andy Murray has revealed why Roger Federer stopped practising with him and never trained with Rafael Nadal or Novak Djokovic throughout his career.<\/p>\n
At his peak, Murray competed with Federer<\/a>, Nadal and Djokovic during what was a golden age of tennis.<\/p>\n During a career spanning from 2005 to 2024, Murray secured 46 singles titles, including three Grand Slams, and spent 41 weeks as the world No 1.<\/p>\n Djokovic, Nadal and Federer make up the top three on the all-time men\u2019s Grand Slam title list, with 24, 22 and 20 majors respectively.<\/p>\n Murray played 85 matches combined against Federer, Nadal and Djokovic and compiled 29 victories over the legendary trio.<\/p>\n Murray discussed practising with his \u2018Big Four\u2019 rivals with snooker legend Stephen Hendry during an appearance on the Stephen Hendry Cue Tips YouTube channel.<\/p>\n \u201cI would practise with them, I\u2019d practise with Djokovic and Nadal,\u201d said the two-time Olympic champion.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I first started, I would practise with Federer. But then he, after like a year or two, stopped. He wouldn\u2019t practise with me anymore.<\/p>\n Roger Federer comeback to tennis may be set to move to the next level in 2026<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Emma Raducanu will mirror Roger Federer with a major sponsor change: report<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n \u201cAnd he never practised with Djokovic or Nadal, I think if he considered them to be a competitor to him.<\/p>\n \u201cI like practising with them just because it gave me the chance to see where my game was at.<\/p>\n \u201cI wouldn\u2019t practise with them a couple of days before a big match, but a couple weeks out from a major tournament, then I would practise with those guys.<\/p>\n \u201cI was never going for dinner with them, whereas now, I\u2019d love to do that \u2014 see them a few times socially.\u201d<\/p>\n Murray was asked if he had friends when he was at the top of the sport.<\/p>\n \u201cNo, not at the top of the game. Generally, if I\u2019m socialising with friends and family, you want to feel like you can tell them if you\u2019re struggling with something,\u201d Murray explained.<\/p>\n \u201cBut if you\u2019re competing against them, you wouldn\u2019t do it.\u201d<\/p>\n The former world No 1 also shared an interesting insight from his time coaching Djokovic.<\/p>\n \u201cA two-handed backhand, you use that left hand a lot,\u201d Murray said.<\/p>\n \u201cDjokovic, when I was helping him, with all the sessions, he\u2019d start just using his left hand warming up.\u201d<\/p>\n READ NEXT: WTA Tour and Mercedes-Benz announce major \u00a3375 million partnership backed by Coco Gauff and Roger Federer<\/a> The post Andy Murray makes Roger Federer practice revelation as he shares Novak Djokovic insight<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Andy Murray has revealed why Roger Federer stopped practising with him and never trained with Rafael Nadal or Novak Djokovic throughout his career. At his peak, Murray competed with Federer, Nadal and Djokovic during what was a golden age of tennis. During a career spanning from 2005 to 2024, Murray secured 46 singles titles, including […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is Andy Murray\u2019s record against Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic?<\/h2>\n
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