Andy Murray set to coach Jack Draper at Wimbledon after Brit splits with Jamie Delgado

Andy Murray, the two-time Wimbledon champion, will join Jack Draper’s coaching team during this year’s grass season.

Draper is currently out with a knee injury and has barely played since last summer because of a bone bruise in his serving arm. But he is aiming to make a comeback at the HSBC Championships at the Queen’s Club in June, an event where Murray is a five-time champion.

Bringing on his compatriot, and the most successful British men’s player of modern times, will be seen as a major coup for Draper, especially given Murray’s considerable pedigree on grass.

Jamie Delgado, a former coach of Murray who has been working with Draper since last October, will leave the team. “I am very grateful for everything Jamie Delgado has done for me over these past six months,” Draper said in a statement. “He is a world-class coach and a great man.

“In the interim, I will continue to be supported by the excellent team at the LTA (Lawn Tennis Association), with the addition of Andy Murray, who will be supporting me throughout the grass court season.”

Murray retired as a player in August 2024, having won three Grand Slam titles, two Olympic golds, the Davis Cup and achieved the world No. 1 ranking. Upon retiring, he planned to have a lengthy break from the sport, but in November 2024 couldn’t resist an offer to coach his former rival and the most successful male player of all time, Novak Djokovic. Murray helped Djokovic to a win over Carlos Alcaraz at the 2025 Australian Open, but they parted ways by mutual consent last May.

Murray has not coached since, and in an interview last month said he would like to again but it would have to be the right project. He said that developing a young talent like Juan Carlos Ferrero had done with Alcaraz would appeal.

Draper is slightly older at 24, but is a hugely exciting proposition. As well as being a compatriot who Murray knows well — they played together at Davis Cup level and Draper’s brother is Murray’s agent — he was ranked No. 4 last June and if he can stay fit, he is seen as a genuine threat to Jannik Sinner and Alcaraz.

Despite a big serve and good feel at the net, Draper has never gone beyond the second round at Wimbledon. He spoke after losing at that stage to Marin Čilić last year about needing to improve on the surface. There have been few better on it over the last 20 years than Murray, who is also uniquely positioned to help Draper navigate the pressure that comes with being the big home hope at the All England Club.

Draper last played at the Barcelona Open in mid-April, when a knee injury forced him to retire hurt against Tomás Martín Etcheverry. He is currently ranked No. 50 following an injury-plagued 12 months and will tumble out of the world’s top 100 before he returns in west London.

But he has shown by winning the BNP Paribas Open, an ATP Masters 1000 event, and reaching the U.S. Open semifinals, that when fit, he is one of the ATP Tour’s most promising talents.

The men’s HSBC Championships, where Draper was a semifinalist last year, starts Monday, June 15.

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