Sir Andy Murray has disclosed that he doesn’t miss life on the professional tennis circuit. His revelation came after his wife, Kim, acknowledged that the couple had changed considerably since their younger years. Sir Andy, 39, brought his playing career to a close following the 2024 Olympic Games. Speaking to Harper’s Bazaar in June, the pair discussed life since the tennis legend’s retirement, with the former world No. 1 revealing his current feelings towards the sport.
“The only moment I really felt it [missing tennis] was driving through Wimbledon before the tournament last year,” he said. “I thought, it might be nice to play there. But honestly, that’s it.” Kim also suggested that raising four children has made the adjustment more straightforward. “By the end of Andy’s career, life already looked different,” she added. “We had the children, there were injuries, then Covid. We weren’t the same people we were in our twenties.
Since stepping away from tennis, Sir Andy has launched a live theatre tour and committed himself to lowering his golf handicap. The Scottish sporting icon, who secured three Grand Slam titles, including two Wimbledon crowns, has maintained a complicated relationship with tennis since retiring from competition.
Murray opted for a move into coaching rather than broadcasting, preferring to remain actively involved in the sport rather than watching from the sidelines..
In a surprising turn of events, Murray joined forces with one of his most formidable rivals, Novak Djokovic, ahead of the 2025 Australian Open. The partnership lasted just one Grand Slam before ending several months later. Murray admitted that the offer to coach the 24-time Grand Slam champion caught him completely off guard.
He said: “I was enjoying being away from the tour, and I really hadn’t watched much tennis. I had not missed playing or competing or being on a tennis court at all. I was actually playing golf. We’d actually been exchanging messages. Novak had messaged me just wanting to chat.
He has since joined the coaching team of British talent Jack Draper, who was unfortunately ruled out of this year’s Wimbledon through injury. Despite his deep-rooted connection to the All England Club, Murray chose to give the 2025 edition a miss.
Speaking to The Guardian, he explained: “I’m not working there. I don’t go to watch tennis as a fan. But if one of my kids wanted to go along and watch, I obviously would take them.
“If a British player made the final, I’d go. I went to the Novak Djokovic vs Carlos Alcaraz final a couple of years ago, just because I had a feeling it was going to be a great match. But I won’t be there otherwise.”
He also remains largely unenthusiastic about pursuing a career as a tennis commentator, with the Scot conspicuously absent from our screens throughout this summer’s tournament.
He explained: “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
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.”
Rather than taking that route, Sir Andy has teamed up with his elder brother Jamie to launch a YouTube show called The Set. On the new venture, he said: “With The Set, we have total flexibility about when we film stuff, we know which hours we work, and there are 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.
