The British legend ended his career after competing at the Paris Olympics this summer but Kyrgios was saddened to see the former world number one as a diminished figure in his final competitive years as he struggled for results after two major hip operations and has no plans to end his time on court in the same way.

Kyrgios told The Louis Theroux Podcast: "I look at how Andy Murray's doing it now, and how Rafael [Nadal] is going out, I don't want to be like that either, I don't want to be kind of crawling to the finish line in a sense.

"What Andy Murray's achieved in this sport is second to basically no one ... unless you are Novak [Djokovic], [Roger] Federer or Nadal. The next person is Andy Murray.

"It's like you've achieved everything. You deserve to go out, I think, a little bit more gracefully than he has done. I think that the surgeries, the pain, it's just not worth it, in my opinion."

Meanwhile, Kyrgios is eyeing a return to tennis after missing the past two years through injury and still believes that he is capable of winning a maiden Grand Slam title.

The tennis maverick said: "I am coming back because something is keeping me around the game.

"I have beaten pretty much every person that has been put in front of me, made a final of a Grand Slam, won a doubles title in a Grand Slam, won multiple titles and made money.

"But I think the one thing that is now on my target is a Grand Slam. I think that will be the only thing that will shut people up at the end of the day. That will be my deep motivation."