Murray explained: “What was said at the time was that we literally are spending hardly any time together in a three-month period right before major events coming up. It appears Mauresmo found the travelling too stressful, which would be perfectly understandable, yet she did not forward that as a reason. The article hadn’t even come out when I answered those questions.” What I said about my on-court behaviour was not in response to what came out. “Obviously what’s happened the last few days has been difficult, because I didn’t have a chance to talk about it or respond or anything. Stop directing your frustration at the box and being distracted from what’s going on on the court.’ But to say that that’s why we stopped working together is untrue. And there were times when – like with all of my coaches – they said, ‘You need to concentrate more on the match. “For sure, when we were working together, we discussed many things on the court. In Madrid when we spoke, we didn’t discuss that one time. To say that the reason that we stopped working together is because of my behaviour on the court, that is not true. “Anyone who said was heated is lying and was not there.
“And the last two days was supposedly that I was hitting back at Amélie’s comments and disagreeing with everything that she said and that we had a really tough break-up. “I did an interview before the tournament, before anything that Amélie had said had come out,” Murray said. Pointing out that an interview with him in L’Equipe on Monday was recorded before hers appeared in the same paper last Saturday, Murray wanted to correct the impression that such a false juxtaposition gave that he was trying to get square with her. “Me and Amélie have a very good relationship,” he said of the Parisian who left him in Madrid earlier this month and whom he hopes to meet at some time during the tournament, “and I don’t think it’s fair to try to say otherwise.”
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In front of a rapt audience of media inquisitors – some of whom he clearly has viewed with suspicion in recent days – the world No2 calmly deconstructed the tale of what had grown organically from just another professional break-up into one of the great sporting divorces of modern times. She has worked with the likes of Michael Llodra, Victoria Azarenka, Marion Bartoli, Andy Murray and Lucas Pouille in the past.After wrapping up unfinished business with the Czech – the oldest of a record 51 over-30 players in the draw – 3-6, 3-6, 6-0, 6-3, 7-5, Murray turned to his other recent “problem” in what was never going to be a mundane press conference. Since retiring in 2009, Mauresmo transitioned into coaching and also served as France’s Davis Cup captain. Mauresmo will be tasked, in part with improving the image of the tournament after that debacle and planning to stage the 2022 tournament in continued pandemic uncertainty. The tournament found itself at the centre of controversy earlier this year over their handling of Noami Osaka’s requests regarding her mental health and media commitments. “The FFT would like to thank Guy Forget, who has been director of the Roland-Garros tournament since 2016 and of the Rolex Paris Masters since 2012, for his commitment and for the wonderful example he has set, which have helped boost the international exposure of these two major tournaments,” the Federation announced earlier this week. “I will carry them out with the same high standards, freedom and passion that have always driven me.”įorget, who’d been in place since 2016 and also overseen the Paris Masters since 2012, was nearing the end of his contract but turned down potential offers, according to Moretton. I have accepted the position of Tournament Director with clear ambitions,” Mauresmo said. “I am very proud to join the Roland-Garros team. The 42-year-old Mauresmo expressed her “pride” at being named director of Roland Garros, the premier clay-court tournament in the world and French federation’s principal source of revenue.
The former Wimbledon and Australian Open champion becomes the first women to hold the tournament director’s post at the Grand Slam. Mauresmo has been appointed to a three-year term that will keep her in place until 2024, FFT president Gilles Moretton confirmed in an announcement. The French Tennis Federation (FFT) named former WTA No 1 Amélie Mauresmo as Roland Garros director on Thursday.
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