Jonas Bjorkman is the preferred candidate to become Andy Murray 's new assistant coach with the Swedish former world No 4 joining the Brit 's team for a trial period . Murray has been searching for a new No 2 coach since Dani Vallverdu left the team last November before going on to work with Czech Tomas Berdych . Bjorkman will work with Murray for one week in the next month or so once his television commitments with Let 's Dance , the Swedish version of Strictly Come Dancing , are over . Former world No 4 Jonas Bjorkman will join up with Team Murray for a trial week as assistant coach . Andy Murray celebrates after securing victory for Great Britain against the USA in the Davis Cup in Glasgow . The 42-year-old has plenty of experience in the game , reaching the semi-finals at Wimbledon and the US Open and winning nine doubles titles across all four Grand Slams . Bjorkman tweeted : ' I 'm super excited and I 'm really looking forward to join @ andy_murray and his team for a test week . ' Murray and Bjorkman have played each other on tour once , the former coming out on top in five sets in their second-round clash at the 2007 US Open . Dani Vallverdu ( right ) left the Murray camp last November and is now working with Tomas Berdych . Murray is currently in Indian Wells , California with main coach Amelie Mauresmo for the BNP Paribas Open and is scheduled to take on Vasek Pospisil or Mikhail Kukushkin in the second round on Saturday or Sunday . Speaking before Great Britain 's victory against the USA in the Davis Cup last weekend , Murray said : 'After the Aussie Open I spent the next three or four weeks with no coach and I feel that 's something I obviously need to get sorted so that when I get to the clay-court season I am not in that position , because I feel like there are some things I need to work on all the time and when I do n't have someone there it 's harder to do that . '
Andy Murray will work with USA 's Jonas Bjorkman for a trial period . Murray has been searching for a new No 2 since Dani Vallverdu left . Bjorkman , 42 , won nine doubles titles across all four Grand Slams .