Andy Murray calls Rafael Nadal a 'bad loser' and opens up on return to tennis

Andy Murray thrashed Rafael Nadal 3-0 in the virtual Madrid Open last night – and then mocked the 19-time Grand Slam winner in his post-match interview. The original event has been cancelled because of the coronavirus to tournament organiser Feliciano Lopez has taken the competition online.

There is over £130,000 on offer for the winner of the men’s and women’s draw with a portion of that being donated to a players relief fund to help out those further down the world rankings.

Murray has made a brilliant start to the esports event as he beat Benoit Paire in his opening group match.

The 32-year-old then trashed Nadal in under five minutes last night as he dropped only point all match.

Murray gave the camera a fist bump once his quarter-final place was secured with a game to spare.

In contrast, Nadal showed a thumbs up and said: “Thank you, Andy” before easily turning off his console.

That led to Murray mocking the Spaniard during his post-match interview.

“If you speak to Rafa, tell him not to be such a bad loser next time!” Murray said.

Nadal hit back later in the night, replying: “It makes sense because when we used to play on the PlayStation years ago in pairs, he used to play with Dani (Vallverdu, Murray’s former coach) and it was always Dani’s fault.”

Murray is one of the favourite to go on and win the title.

“I think I have a chance, for sure,” the Brit said.

“A lot of people want to watch sport again, so obviously the athletes and the players want to be competing.

“It’s entertaining and it’s something that lots of people enjoy. When you don’t get to see it for a while, people realise how much they love playing and watching it.

“But just because it’s difficult not to have sport just now doesn’t mean we have to speed things up.

“Let’s just focus on getting our normal lives back first and hopefully then all of the countries can sort out the virus properly.

“I’m obviously no expert on this but I assume the danger is when you go back to trying to do things too quickly like avoiding social distancing and then if we get back to international travel, then maybe there could be a second wave of infections and that maybe that would slow everything down again.

“That’s not what anyone wants. Let’s just try and get things back to normal first and then we can think about playing sport again.”