END UP LIKE IVAN? FAT CHANCE!

Murray vows not to pile on weight when he retires... like Lendl did: ‘When he was playing he was thin and in great shape, when he stopped things then went south’

ANDY MURRAY has vowed he won’t get fat at the end of his career like his former coach Ivan Lendl – despite revealing he piled on 10lb following his comeback victory.

The double Wimbledon champion battled back from two hip operations to claim the European Open in Antwerp last month.

But the 32-year-old then took a break from the game – when his third child Teddy was born – and he binged on “junk” while his wife Kim caught up on sleep.

“I didn’t do anything for 12 days – literally nothing,” admitted the world No.125. “I got up to my heaviest weight in my career probably. I was 88.5 kilos (13st 13lb) and I’m usually 84 (13.3). Evenings were the issue. The newborn has been going to bed at 7pm sleeping for a three-hour period.

“My wife would sleep upstairs and get a period of good sleep in before the baby would wake up. I’d be on my own downstairs and eat chocolate biscuits and stuff.

“There was Halloween and my second daughter’s birthday party, then also my sister-in-law had a birthday, so there was lots of cake and junk and no training is not a good combination.”

But Murray (above), who returns to Davis Cup action in Madrid next week, joked the rotund Lendl (top right) served as a warning to control his weight in future.

“He’ll probably kill me for saying this, but I always said I don’t want to end up with what happened to Ivan,” said the Scot.

“I know, if you put that in your papers, I’ll get a message from him tomorrow. When he was playing, he was in great shape and very thin (right). And, when he stopped, things went south, so I need to avoid that.” Speaking at the launch of his new clothing line ‘Andy Murray Castore’ in London yesterday, the Olympic champion said his third child will have his middle name Barron.

“The middle name got in there,” said the Scot. “I don’t love the name. My dad’s middle name was Barron, his dad was Barron, my granddad’s dad, so I kept that. But Teddy, my wife liked that so she chose it. It’s been good, it’s just busy. We’ve three under four now and two dogs, so you’ve got to keep an eye out all the time, but it’s been good, sleeping fine.”

Murray said his two daughters – Sophia, three, and one-yearold Edie – were not exactly gripped by his first ATP title in two years in Antwerp.

“I think they were having dinner at Wagamama’s during the final, so I don’t think they were watching,” he said, laughing.

“They’ve seen me on the tennis court on TV over the last few months.

I’m not sure they’ve got the patience to sit and watch a tennis match.”