Djokovic leads on hard courts 20–8 and 5–1 on clay, while Murray won their two matches played on grass.
Their last meeting came in January 2017 at the Qatar Open (even though both players remained active through 2024), mainly due to Murray's subsequent string of injuries and decline from the peak of the sport.
Djokovic and Murray met each other a record four times in the final of the Australian Open, but their most notable encounter there was in the 2012 semifinals.
After Murray's retirement from the sport at the 2024 Olympic Games, he served as Djokovic's head coach at the 2025 Australian Open.
This was the first of 20 matches at ATP Tour Masters 1000 tournaments the two would play, with Djokovic being the winner here in three sets.
Murray beat Djokovic in straight sets, both in tiebreaks, to claim his first ATP World Tour Masters 1000 title.
Djokovic beat Murray in straight sets to win his second Australian Open title in just over 2 and a half hours.
However, two double faults from Murray allowed Djokovic to break back and win the match in a deciding tiebreak.
[4] Djokovic and Murray met each other in the semifinals of the 2012 Australian Open, in one of the longest and closest fought matches the two have ever played, at 4 hours and 50 minutes long.
Murray was the two-time defending champion in Shanghai and was going for his third successive title, whilst Djokovic had just won the China Open the previous week.
Murray was coming off an exhausting five-set win over Roger Federer in the semifinals, while Djokovic breezed to an easy 89 minute, straight sets victory over David Ferrer.
However, not to be outdone, Djokovic fought back strongly, first to deuce, after which he held three separate break point opportunities.
Djokovic conceded that Murray was the better player on the day, and that he "absolutely deserved to win today".
Djokovic was coming off an exhausting five-set win over Stanislas Wawrinka in the semifinals, while Murray beat Tomas Berdych in 4 sets.
After Murray broke early in the third set, Djokovic would win twelve of the next thirteen games, including the last nine in a row, to take the match and the championship in four sets, becoming the first man in the Open era to win 5 Australian Open championships.
After two breaks of serve in the fourth set, the match was suspended for the day at 3 games all due to an approaching thunderstorm.
1 had also won the last 12 Masters finals in which he had competed, including wins at Indian Wells, Miami, Monte Carlo and Rome this year.
Both players started strong, with Murray taking a lead, squandering it, and breaking back to win the set.
[22] Djokovic and Murray met five times in 2016 and created history by taking the battle for world number 1 to the final match of the season.
Murray’s victory at the Paris Masters elevated him to number 1 in the rankings for the first time in his career, ending Djokovic’s 122 week run.
Of the five meetings (all in championship matches) that took place between the pair in 2016, this one had added significance, as the winner would be the year-end world number one.
This was the only time the year end number 1 had been contested between two players in the last match of the season, and the first time since Mats Wilander and Ivan Lendl met in the US Open final in 1988 that the number 1 spot had been decided between two players in a single match.
In Djokovic's case a win would have seen him win his fifth overall year-end title, just one short of the overall record held by Roger Federer and Pete Sampras; Murray, on the other hand, was shooting for his first year-end title, having reached the championship match for the first time.
[28] Ultimately, Murray won in straight sets, becoming the first man other than Djokovic, Federer or Nadal to finish the year at the top of the rankings since Andy Roddick in 2003.