Andy Murray Appoints Amelie Mauresmo as his new coach Sunday June 08,2014

Andy Murray announced on Sunday June 08,2014 — with the tennis world agog — that Amelie Mauresmo(France) would be his new coach for the grass-court season and almost certainly beyond.

Former French tennis player Amelie Mauresmo gives a press conference during the French Open tennis tournament at Roland Garros in Paris

 
Mauresmo, who won two Grand Slam titles, described Murray as “an amazingly talented tennis player” and added: “I feel I have plenty to offer both him and the team around him.”


Amelie Mauresmo won both the Australian Open and Wimbledon in 2006, two years after she first held the world number one ranking.

Amelie Mauresmo already has experience of coaching man, having worked with Frenchman Michael Llodra

Amelie Mauresmo coached Frenchman Michael Llodra during the 2010 grass-court season, when he won the Eastbourne ATP event.

She is currently captain of the French Fed Cup team (the opposite number of Judy Murray with the Great Britain team) and was on the support staff of Marion Bartoli when she won 2013 Wimbledon

There are a couple of current top-100 players who have put their faith in women as their outright coaches but they are family. 

One is Uzbekistan’s Denis Istomin, who is coached by his mother, and the other is the Russian-Kazakh Mikhail Kukushkin, whose coach is his wife Anastasia.