In an exclusive interview with L’equipe, Frenchwoman Amelie Mauresmo dishes on her new partnership with Andy Murray, providing insight into some of the details of the relationship as well as expressing her own ideas about Murray’s game and personality.

Here are some poignant quotes from Mauresmo (translation credit: Mark Nixon):

On Andy:

"Andy is very misunderstood. He's thorough, obviously, but behind that there's a lot of vivacity, a lot of humor, he's warm. That's how I was as a player. We get along pretty well."

"It was common sense at the beginning that my role would be as an observer with bits of tennis advice. Now it's more balanced. I still observe, but I intervene more. The fifteen days of work in Miami helped."

"It's funny, but I also experienced it in a very detached way in the end. I heard, I felt the expectations, the buzz. But it really didn't matter. We'd gone through things enough before to feel as if we were in a bubble. Everybody was telling me "Wow! You have so much pressure!" But zero. The tabloids were quiet apart from some photos. But I couldn't care less, I don't read them. What suited me was that they asked me not to talk, especially to the English journalists."

"I thought about it at the start. OK, it was part of the package. But I'm not doing it for that, but with the goal of getting results."

"A lot of things depend on Andy. Like when I played and I concentrated heavily on what I had to do. He has a great knowledge of his strengths and possible weaknesses, and it's easy for me with regard to his game to see what could work better. When it comes to his opponents, yes, I don't know them that well. But, one, I'll be watching the matches. Two, videos, they exist, and I spend a lot of time with them. When I start a job, I do it as well as I can. When I have a challenge, I do everything I can to meet it."