Jamie Murray & John Peers Post-Match Interview at the 2025 Dallas Open

Jamie Murray and John Peers are both multiple-time Grand Slam Doubles Champions. They reached the semifinals of the 2025 Dallas Open where I spoke with them after their quarterfinal win.

They reflect on their crazy comeback victory from a set and 2-6 down in the 2nd set tiebreaker. By ATP standards, this is a huge deficit. We talk about resilience, adjustments related to the match, and more.

• How they climbed out of their big hole in the tiebreaker
• Insights on mental strength and key strategic adjustments
• Advice for club players on maintaining focus during tense situations and 10-point tiebreakers
• Reflections on the Dallas Open experience
• How to make doubles more popular

I also spoke with Jamie for a longer podcast coming soon.

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Transcript

Speaker 1 1:15

In this episode you'll hear another post-match interview from the Dallas Open, this time with Jamie Murray and John Piers. Jamie is a seven-time Grand Slam champion. John Piers has won a few Grand Slam titles as well, and he also won the Olympic gold medal in 2024 in Paris. In Paris Now.

Speaker 1 1:37

Jamie and John won their quarterfinal match in Dallas 4-6, 7-6, 11-9 in the tiebreaker and then 10-6 in the third set tiebreaker. You'll notice that I lead with a very simple question how did you win this match? And that is because they were down 2-6 in the second set tiebreaker. So they came back from, by ATP doubles standards, a very, very big hole. Typically, when you're down double break, four match points in a tiebreaker, you have a very, very low chance of winning that.

Speaker 1 2:15

But they were able to find a way. They played a very good match point that they talk about a little bit when they were down 3-6 in that tiebreaker on the opponent's serve. And then they also talk about adjustments that they made throughout the match, as well as kind of some goals for the rest of the year and a few other topics. So again, this is a very short post-match interview, but I want to get all of these out to y'all so that you can listen to them, get to know these players, get a feel for what it's like for some of the best doubles players in the world on the court, and learn a little bit of strategy as well. So, without further delay, enjoy this post-match interview with Jamie Murray and John Pierce. So how did you all win that match?

Speaker 2 3:02

Good question. We just hung around long enough. We actually got a break up in the second and I didn't serve a great game serving for the second set, so I probably should have gone to a super tiebreaker anyway, but then I thought we just hung around. Hung around, jamie did a couple of unbelievable steals I think it was the 6-3 point and then, yeah, we played a pretty good super tiebreaker. For that Jamie steals I think was the 6-3 point, and then, yeah, we've had a pretty good super tiebreaker after that, jeremy.

Speaker 3 3:25

Yeah, I mean, I mean in the end we were lucky right like we're 6-2 down in the tiebreak like you know those guys should probably see that through but like we made an amazing save at 6-3 and then the guy double faults the next point and all of a sudden like we're in the match again and you know we hustled a few good points and got through that and then we, you know, were obviously rough in the tie but really the whole way played some good stuff and they came back a bit at the end but yeah, I mean lived to fight.

Speaker 1 3:53

I love that. Yeah, were there any adjustments that y'all made? I felt like watching your energy was pretty even keel throughout the match, which I feel like watching it all in the past isn't super uncommon, but then it did seem like your energy maybe raised a little bit after that second set tiebreaker and then going into the.

Speaker 3 4:13

All of a sudden we had a chance to win the match. Right. I guess your focus goes up, your intensity. Tyrex every single point counts. It's always a big advantage to get up at the start of the Tyrex. We got up 4-1, I think In the end we were 9-3. We did well. We did well to turn it around. There's not many times you'll win in the season when you're 6-2 down in the Tyrex in a race to 7. We're happy to win and happy to still be in the season when you're six two down in the tie breaks in a race to seven.

Speaker 1 4:43

So we're happy to win and happy to still be in the tournament a lot of people who listen to this uh are club players who also play doubles. They also play 10 point tiebreakers. Do you have any tips for them as far as like mentality or anything specifically that you like to do in 10 point tiebreakers to keep your focus and to to play well?

Speaker 2 5:03

it's just a long way to 10. Just keep hanging around. Keep hanging around and enjoy the battle. There's going to be ebbs and flows in that tiebreak. It's never over until it's actually over. So just keep enjoying it and things can happen.

Speaker 3 5:15

Yeah, how do you handle the mat?

Speaker 1 5:20

like when you're down match points or four match points in the breaker. Do you treat it different mentally at all, or how do you?

Speaker 3 5:26

handle it versus regular points. I was probably thinking of the shower. To be honest, where are we going next week? You know.

Speaker 1 5:32

Does it kind of loosen you up in some ways when you're you know.

Speaker 3 5:36

I don't know. I mean, we made an amazing point at 6-3 right like yeah, you know, and maybe the guy you know he got a bit edgy double faults and all of a sudden at 6-5, like he was just serving and we're back uh, we're, we're back in the match like again.

Speaker 3 5:50

Just, you know, things can change really fast, like that's what happened and after that it was. It was a dog fight and you know, we we, like Pew said we hung around, we made the shots we needed to make and, yeah, we got off the line somehow.

Speaker 1 6:06

It did seem like your intensity, especially you, john from the baseline, like raised once you got down those match points, like early in the tiebreaker I think you missed a few forehands. And then that 6-3 point you were just ripping from the baseline and really focused Did you feel like that too, or not really.

Speaker 2 6:23

But I mean, I think once you get to that point, you're that far down that you got to give whatever you've got to try and finish, hang around to be fair and we got lucky in the end and that's. That's tennis. Sometimes it rolls your way and hopefully we're still here in the tournament. Now survive another day, and that's what you have to do sometimes.

Speaker 1 6:41

What have you thought of Dallas compared to other 500 tournaments, this being their first year as a 500?

Speaker 2 6:47

Yeah, I think they've done a great job. I think it's been hotel's great, setup's pretty good. I think they can tweak one or two things just to make it a little bit smoother for a couple of things behind the scenes, but I think it's great, setup's great food's great.

Speaker 3 7:02

Yeah, I'm enjoying it so far. Yeah, it's an easy week for the players, right like hotels next door to the venue, four indoor courts, four practice courts at an indoor venue is unheard of, so it's super easy, convenient. Like you said, food's good, a lot of space for us to kind of move around, like no one's kind of living on top of each other, and, yeah, we're enjoying it. There's not much to sort of like stress you out. You know, and that's what players want, right, they don't want, you know, they want to know they can practice when they want to practice and, you know, have access to good gym facilities. Good food is key, like you know. They've done that. So gym facilities, good food is key.

Speaker 1 7:42

They've done that. Last question, jamie. I'm hoping to talk to you later about this, but, john, I'd love to hear from you how can we make doubles more popular?

Speaker 2 7:52

I think, just trying to get a little bit more exposure. I think, as you said before, a lot of club players play doubles and I think if we can continue to grow the game, that's the biggest thing at the end of the day, because there's a few other sports racket sports popping up which have massive popularity. A majority of the time they're playing four on a court as well, so there's no reason why we can't use that sort of leverage and push doubles up with it. Awesome Thanks, guys.

Speaker 1 8:15

Thank you Appreciate it.