Andy Murray smiles when asked if he thinks it’s true – or not – that Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer, “don’t particularly like each other”, as the Serb’s coach, Boris Becker, asserts in a new book that has already disturbed the rhododendrons in SW19.
“If you compare to what it was like beforehand [in the game generally], when those two see each other, they say: ‘Hi.’ and shake hands and have a little chat,” Murray says. “Whether they like each other or not, I’m not really bothered about that, but people like to create [stories] that these people really hate each other.