Andy Murray Joins Jack Draper for Grass-Court Season

Andy Murray is back in tennis as part of Jack Draper’s coaching team for the grass-court season. Draper has split with Jamie Delgado and said Murray will support him throughout the swing.

Draper called Delgado “a world-class coach and a great man,” and added, “I am very grateful for everything Jamie Delgado has done for me over these past six months.” The change gives Draper a fresh setup as he tries to reset after months of injury disruption.

Jack Draper and Andy Murray

Murray’s role is his second coaching job since retiring from professional tennis in 2024. He spent six months working with Novak Djokovic in the first half of last year, and now he steps into a team built around Draper’s next stretch on grass.

The pairing is familiar. Draper and Murray have trained together many times, played as Olympic and Davis Cup teammates, and British tennis insiders had long expected Murray to coach him at some point. Draper also beat Murray at Indian Wells in 2023 in their only ATP Tour match against each other.

Draper’s grass-court reset

Draper’s season has been broken up by injury. He missed around seven months with a bone bruise in his left arm, then suffered a knee injury in April at the Barcelona Open and withdrew from the entire clay-court season, including the French Open.

He is scheduled to return at the start of the grass-court season after reaching a career-high ranking of world No 4 last season. The move brings Murray, a two-time Wimbledon men’s singles champion from 2013 and 2016, into Draper’s corner as the 36-year-old prepares for a surface where he has never gone beyond the second round at Wimbledon.

For Draper, the immediate change is simple: a new coach, a familiar voice, and a grass-court block that now carries Murray’s experience. For Murray, it is a return to tour life in a role that links his past at Wimbledon with Draper’s next run on home grass.

Italian Open results in Rome

Jannik Sinner beat Andrea Pellegrino 6-2, 6-3 at the Italian Open to post his 31st consecutive Masters 1000 victory and match Novak Djokovic’s record streak.

Alexander Zverev’s day in Rome went the other way. He lost 1-6, 7-6, 6-0 to Luciano Darderi in the third round after squandering four match points, while Sorana Cirstea reached her first clay-court WTA 1000 semi-final by beating Jelena Ostapenko 6-1, 7-6.