Ex-Coach of Jannik Sinner Wants Him to Hire Andy Murray When Darren Cahill Decides to Retire

Coach Darren Cahill wanted to leave Jannik Sinner‘s team after the 2025 season, but after their discussion following the Italian’s 2025 ATP Finals win, the Aussie decided to stay. Cahill has made his intention to retire from coaching clear, and after his time with Sinner, if he decides to leave tennis, Sinner should hire Andy Murray, believes Riccardo Piatti.

The Italian coach was in Sinner’s team since he turned professional until 2022. That year, Sinner added Cahill and Simone Vagnozzi to his entourage, and under their guidance, the 24-year-old reached the top of the rankings table, won two ATP Finals, completed the Sunshine Double, and lifted four Grand Slam titles.

Murray, the three-time Grand Slam champion, hung up his racket at the 2024 Paris Olympics and later joined Novak Djokovic‘s team. But the partnership did not last for long because Djokovic struggled to perform, and they split after six months. Murray, in a recent interview, said he wants to coach a young player.

Look, coaching a world number one or two is stressful. It means making your life revolve around the player’s needs: it’s not a vacation. I think Darren will retire because he wants to do something else, but honestly, I don’t know. [Andre] Agassi? I don’t think so. I’d see Andy Murray as a good fit: intelligent, experienced, solid. In 2021, in Stockholm, he defeated a young Sinner in straight sets. After the match, I went to talk to Andy: I ​​would have taken him straight away, but he had decided to keep playing, damn it.

Riccardo Piatti told Corriere della Sera

Then there’s also Carlos Alcaraz‘s former coach, Juan Carlos Ferrero, who wants to return to coaching a tenning player in the future and also did not rule out the possibility of making Sinner his pupil.

Riccardo Piatti on Jannik Sinner’s Roland Garros goal

Jannik Sinner, in one of the interviews, said one of his main goals for this season is to win the Roland Garros, where last year, he suffered a heartbreaking five-set defeat to Carlos Alcaraz. The World No.2 squandered a two-set lead as well as three match points.

It was the first time the two top players faced each other in a Grand Slam final. Reacting to Sinner and Alcaraz’s Roland Garros chances, Riccardo Piatti told Corriere della Sera:

Of course, Alcaraz and Sinner are a level above the others: it doesn’t take them long to make the switch. Alcaraz is more easily adaptable on clay, while Jan might need more time. We saw Alcaraz start off at full speed; now it’s Jannik who’s going full blast. They both have Paris in their sights: whoever gets there, wins. Let’s see how Alcaraz gets back on track, and he will, and how Sinner manages the lead-up: his goal is to conquer Roland Garros and, along the way, Rome.

Sinner took his revenge on the seven-time Grand Slam champion in the Wimbledon final but lost to him in the US Open final. Novak Djokovic broke the Sinner-Alcaraz duopoly in Grand Slam finals by defeating the South Tyrol native in this year’s Australian Open semifinal before losing to the Spaniard in the final, which made the latter the youngest man in the Open Era to complete the Career Grand Slam.

Sinner and Alcaraz have won two titles each this season. After his Australian Open win, Alcaraz defeated Arthur Fils in the Qatar Open final and lost both the Indian Wells and the Miami Open before reaching the final. Sinner downed Daniil Medvedev in the Indian Wells final and later beat Jiri Lehecka in the Miami Open final to become the eighth man to complete the Sunshine Double.

Also read: Jannik Sinner Downplays ‘Secondary’ World No.1 Battle With Carlos Alcaraz at Monte Carlo

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