Murray braced for Djokovic ire in coaching debut at Australian Open

The Serbian 24-time Grand Slam winner Djokovic made the shock decision to hire Murray in November, just months after the Scot called time on his playing career. In his first comments since then, fellow former number one Murray, who has known Djokovic since their junior playing days, said the call came out of the blue. "I said to him: 'Look, I need to think about it and talk to my family,'" the BBC quoted Murray as saying. "So I spoke to them and after a couple of days I thought that it was a pretty unique opportunity and experience.