Sir Andy Murray still has little interest in becoming a tennis commentator two years after retiring from playing the sport. The three-time Grand Slam champion has specifically mentioned Wimbledon as somewhere that he does not fancy working, effectively ruling out a role with the BBC.
Sir Andy, 39, is back at SW19 this summer, but in a coaching capacity rather than as a commentator after taking on a part-time role working with Jack Draper. However, with that only taking up around ten weeks of his time, assuming those responsibilities has not ruled out a media career.
Sir Andy has told The Telegraph: “I just have always found tennis commentary and coverage to be quite down the middle. I don’t necessarily find it that interesting or that insightful. It’s not something that I really fancy doing, unless it was done in a very different way, and I don’t necessarily think that that would happen at Wimbledon.”
Instead, he has launched a new portfolio career after starting a YouTube show with his older brother Jamie, called The Set. Sir Andy says: “Whereas, with The Set, we have total flexibility about when we film stuff, we know which hours we work, and there’s no restrictions on what we can and can’t do. If I’m doing an interview in front of the camera, I’ve never really enjoyed it that much, but the YouTube stuff I’ve done – whether it be with [golf influencers] the Fore Bros, or Ian Poulter, or Kevin Pietersen – has been fun.
His show’s production team also created Pietersen’s The Switch as well as The Overlap, which Gary Neville fronts.
