Murray, Nadal fall out over PlayStation rivalry

Nadal and Murray have been good friends for years and often play the Pro Evolution football game during their free time at tournaments.

The two stars, who meet on Friday for a place in the Wimbledon final, both have team-mates during their FIFA matches, with Murray partnered by his assistant coach Dani Vallverdu and Nadal joining forces with Argentine clay-court specialist Juan Monaco.

But world number one Nadal started a good-natured row between the rivals on Wednesday when he revealed that Murray no longer wants to play him at the game because he loses so often.

"Normally we play PlayStation when we are in the same hotels for tournaments. He played with his friend Danny against Monaco and me and we won," Nadal said.

"Now he really doesn't want to play anymore. He lost the last few times. Seriously, that's true. He lost almost every time."

Murray claimed the Spaniard only wins their matches because he plays with expert gamer Monaco.

"Rafa actually isn't very good at PlayStation, but he plays with Juan Monaco and he is very good," Murray said.

"We were actually talking about it before we went out to play our matches today. Rafa said, 'You always have an excuse on the PlayStation'. But we always play with their rules.

"Like there's different camera views in the game, and we play with one camera view and they play with a different one. But we always play with their one.

"They play with Inter Milan, and we're not allowed to play with Inter Milan even though they're the best team in the game. We have to play with a different team.

"It's just all their rules. So when we lose, we're a little bit like, 'Yeah, we blame the rules that they have'.

"I did play them once with our camera view and we won, but that's the only time we got a chance to play them."

Murray got in another jibe at his friend's expense by claiming he would beat Nadal on the PlayStation if the Wimbledon champion agreed to play a head-to-head match just between the two of them.

"It would be very comfortable for me," Murray added.

"I think it winds them up when we make excuses and blame other things rather than just saying that they were better than us. We think we're better and just blame it on other stuff."