Andy Murray spoke out in favour of female coaches following his win over Tomas Berdych in the semi-final of the US open yesterday.

The Scot is currently working with Amelie Mauresmo under whom he lost in the quarter finals of both Wimbledon and the US open last year, leading to negative coverage.

“A lot of people criticised me working with her,” said the former Wimbledon champion. “And I think so far this week we’ve showed that women can be very good coaches as well.”