Norrie ready to step into the spotlight as Murray’s understudy

● Young Scot’s father reveals his son has already received tips from world No 2

Queen’s, so he did it himself, which speaks volumes.”

David and his wife, Helen, are both micro-biologists. They met and married in Johannesburg but once they had started a family, they decided life was just too dangerous in South Africa so they moved to the peace and quiet of New Zealand where their young son played any and every sport he could.

Despite his international upbringing, Cameron still claims to feel “pretty Scottish”, even if he does say that his dad speaks with a “filthy Scottish accent”. Cameron, meanwhile, speaks with a confused mix of American twang (he has spent three years at university in Texas) and clipped New Zealand vowels.

“I was raised in King’s Park in Glasgow, only a couple of streets away from Hampden,” David said. “In fact, from our house I could hear the roar of the crowd when the big matches were on.

“I’m 62 and came from an era when you could get a ‘lift over’ the turnstiles. I watched quite a few games that way, but my most memorable match as a Scot was in 1967 when we defeated England at Wembley.