Andy Murray splits with trainer Jamie Delgado as Brit trials his potential replacement

Andy Murray says he's in the 'bad books' after losing ring

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Andy Murray has split with his coach Jamie Delgado and will work with German Jan De Witt at the Mubadala World Tennis Championship next week.

And Delgado will now work with Canadian star Denis Shapovalov – the Canadian world No.14 who crushed the Scot at Wimbledon this year.

Former Davis Cup player Delgado joined the Murray team in 2016 working under Ivan Lendl and helped the Scot to a second Wimbledon title and world No.1.

He took over as head coach when Lendl quit for a second time in 2017 and has stuck with Murray through his two hip operations and the pandemic.

The Scot, 34,  is now ranked world No.134 after failing to win three matches in a single ATP Tour event this year. He had a trial with Esteban Carril at the recent Stockholm Open.

And now the three-time Major winner will work in Abu Dhabi with De Witt after working with Murray and his team at the National Tennis Centre in London this week.

The German has previously worked with Gilles Simon, Gael Monfils, Tatsuma Ito and Nikoloz Basilashvili and Viktor Troicki.

Murray will play Dominic Thiem in an exhibition match at the MWTC next Thursday. US Open champion Emma Raducanu will play Olympic champion Belinda Bencic in the same event.

The British No.1 will miss the BBC Sports Personality of the Year on December 19 to stay training in the Gulf before flying to Australia on December 27.

And Raducanu will play Emma Raducanu will warm up for the Australian Open by playing a WTA event in Melbourne Park at the start of next month.

And Naomi Osaka and Rafael Nadal will also return to action in the Victorian capital before the first Grand Slam of the year starts on January 17.

World No.13 Osaka, who withdrew from the French Open and skipped Wimbledon citing mental health issues, ended her troubled 2021 season after her exit from the US Open.

And world No.6 Nadal will return in the ATP event at Melbourne Park starting on January 4 in his first appearance since August because of a foot injury which ruled him out of Wimbledon.

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