Andy Murray’s tennis legacy ‘ruined’ as angry mum Judy hits out

It comes after plans to build a £20million national tennis centre were shelved, with Judy accusing the authorities of ‘apathy and lack of co-operation’.
The centre had been earmarked for near the Murrays’ family home in Dunblane, Perthshire, but plans have since taken a backseat.

Having consumed her life for well over a decade, Judy is understandably frustrated about the forced decision to sideline plans, telling The Herald: “I was encouraged to give it scale by Sport Scotland and the Lawn Tennis Association to become a centre of national significance.

“I would have to say I didn’t need that. I just wanted somewhere to work to develop other coaches and players.
And I wanted it to be about community; to be open to everybody. Everything just took so long and got bigger and so the costs went up; we hit Covid and Brexit and had challenges with planning delays.
“I wondered how it can be so difficult to build something that is inherently good. We had set it up as a charity, so there was no commercial value to us in it whatsoever.”

She added: “I worked my butt off to try to get it to where we got it to. But when the construction costs began to rise steeply we really needed all the stakeholders who had committed to step up to help us to fill that gap. And that didn’t happen.