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Mauresmo is a former Wimbledon and Australian Open champion and coached last year’s Wimbledon women’s singles champion, Marion Bartoli, to glory. All of my friends and stuff that I was messaging, a lot of my team, no one watched until the end, so I think we probably need to start a bit earlier.“Everyone I know talks very highly of Amelie, as a person and coach, and I’m convinced that her joining the team will help us push on – I want to win more grand slams,” he added. “I think that was the case for a lot of people. “I watched that [Novak Djokovic-Rafael Nadal) match until 5-3 in the fourth set and then it is too late, so I went to bed,” he said.
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Murray did have one eye on proceedings across the Channel, he said, but could not muster the energy to watch the full night session at Roland-Garros. It could not have felt further from the drama in Paris.
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The 604-capacity Centre Court at Surbiton is overlooked by a suburban street, where neighbours peered from their bedroom windows to watch Murray play. Murray chose to play the low-tier event for the first time since 2004 to get matches under his belt ahead of Wimbledon. His 7-6, 7-6 win over world No 230 Gijs Brouwer on Thursday, when he fought back from a break down in the second set, was his second on the surface this season. While the upper echelons of tennis have congregated in Paris, Murray has been getting a head start on the grass at the Challenger event in Surbiton. Now somebody who’s been a huge supporter of the women’s game and done amazing things for women’s sport is getting smashed, and I feel bad for her, because I know that wouldn’t have been her intention.”
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For me, it would make sense that, in the negotiations with TV and everything, it should be so that it takes the decision-making out of people’s hands. She will want to be doing the best job she can for tennis, and want to be supporting the women’s game as much as the men’s. “I worked with Amelie, and I know her views on that stuff – people can sometimes say things that maybe they don’t necessarily mean exactly. But Murray defended Mauresmo, saying it “wouldn’t have been her intention” to undermine the women’s game. “In this era that we are in right now,” she said on Wednesday, “and as a woman, a former woman’s player, I don’t feel bad or unfair saying that you have more attraction, appeal general, for the men’s matches.” World No 1 Iga Swiatek described it as “disappointing and surprising”. Despite her pioneering career, her comments have left a sour taste. A two-time major champion during her playing career, Mauresmo made headlines during her two-year coaching tenure with Murray from 2014, as she remains one of very few women to coach a leading player on the men’s tour. But it seems to me you should probably have in the contract that it’s an even split between the two or, if they start slightly earlier, you can probably play two women’s matches in that slot and some of the days play just a men’s match, to try to balance it up a little.”Īmazon Prime Video bought exclusive rights to the night sessions at Roland-Garros in 2020, an agreement Mauresmo inherited when she became the first woman to take on the directorship at the French Open.
I don’t know exactly who makes the calls on which matches they put on at that time – if it’s the tournament director, if it’s the TV paying for it. I have no idea, but I’m assuming it’s worth a lot of money to the tournament. “I haven’t seen exactly what’s been said, but I kind of know the gist of it,” Murray said after he progressed to the quarter-finals of the Surbiton Trophy. Murray, who was coached by former world No 1 Mauresmo, said putting women on an equal footing with men during broadcast deal negotiations was the best way to avoid such controversies. I think the people who know me, who’ve known me on and off the court, throughout my career, know that I’m a big fighter for equal rights and women’s tennis, women in general.”
“I want to say sorry to the players that felt bad about what I said. “The comments that I made were taken out of the wider picture, out of the context,” Mauresmo said. Mauresmo apologised on Thursday, after coming under intense scrutiny for suggesting there was less “appeal” in women’s matches, when she was asked why women have only featured in one of 10 night sessions this fortnight in Paris. Andy Murray has called for gender equality in television deals for tennis matches after his former coach and Roland-Garros tournament director Amelie Mauresmo became embroiled in a sexism storm.
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