Amélie Mauresmo will be at Wimbledon for Andy Murray. The Scot’s French coach, who is due to give birth to her first child in August, consulted her doctor on Friday night and was satisfied she would not be inconvenienced travelling to the tournament, which starts on 29 June.
Murray, who drew a qualifier on Saturday for the first round at Queen’s on Tuesday, was delighted with the news.
“Amélie will be at Wimbledon,” he said after a short practice there on Saturday, “but we’d never planned on her coming here this year.
“It’s good. Obviously I like having her around the tournaments. It’s been, for me, a very good start to the year. I think it’s good as well that, before she is away for a few months from the team, her and Jonas [Bjorkman, his new assistant coach] can spend some time together. I would imagine that during Wimbledon Amélie will take the lead and Jonas can see how we operate a bit more as a team. We know each other a lot better than we did at this time last year. So I think she’ll be able to help more this year.”
Murray came to the end of a 15-match unbeaten run on clay when he lost in five sets to Novak Djokovic in the semi-finals of the French Open last Saturday, and revealed he had been ill during the tournament, although he was not hampered on court.
“I felt OK the first few days. When I got on court and started running around it was fine. But then when I got back [to London] my left eyelid closed up and I was just ill, had a bad cough for a couple of days after that as well. I don’t know if I was just run down or tired or whatever. It had obviously been a long few weeks but I feel fine now.”
