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Murray has struggled for consistency since returning to the
circuit after undergoing career-threatening hip surgeries in
2018 and 2019. He is ranked 95th after returning to the top 100
on Monday for the first time since May, 2018.
Venezuelan Vallverdu, who is still contracted to Swiss Stan
Wawrinka, worked with Murray when the British player won the
Olympic gold at the 2012 London Games, the U.S. Open title the
same year and Wimbledon in 2013.
Murray, 34, split with his long-term coach Jamie Delgado at the
end of the 2021 season and ended a trial with German Jan de Witt
at the end of the Australian Open, where he was knocked out in
the second round.
He approached Vallverdu after the year's opening major and they
agreed to work together again, according to a source close to
the situation.
The coaching arrangement, which started in Rotterdam,
Netherlands, where Murray is playing an ATP 500 event after
receiving a wildcard, will be until Vallverdu returns to work
with Wawrinka next month.
Murray has said he will skip the claycourt tournaments this year
to avoid the risk of getting injured.
Three-times major winner Wawrinka is targeting a return to the
ATP Tour on clay in April after a foot injury forced him to sit
out for over a year.
(Reporting by Sudipto Ganguly; editing by Ed Osmond)
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