Lifetimehonour forJudyMurray
Judy Murray is to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award for this year’s UK Coaching Awards for her service to tennis.
The mum of Grand Slam winners Jamie and Andy said the award was “a massive honour”.
She has been coaching for almost 30 years, starting out as a volunteer at Dunblane Tennis Club and quickly rose through the ranks, becoming one of the first women to pass the LTA Performance Coach Award, the highestlevel LTA qualification.
The 60 year-old went on to become British Fed Cup team captain and in her role as Scottish national coach, she was an instrumental figure in the development of numerous British players including Jamie Baker, Elena Baltacha, Colin Fleming, Alan Mackin as well as her sons.
In the past eight years she has travelled the length and breadth of the country with her “Miss-Hits” starter tennis programme for girls, helping increase female participation in the sport.
Her She Rallies programme - developed with the LTA has created more opportunities for females to play tennis in the UK, while her Tennis on the Road programme is aimed at growing the coaching workforce that delivers tennis. She launched The Judy Murray Foundation in 2018, the mission of which is to raise money to bring tennis into areas of Scotland that are not synonymous with tennis, such as rural and disadvantaged inner-city communities.
“It’s a massive honour for me to be given a Lifetime Achievement Award by UK Coaching,” said Judy. “I’ve been coaching for almost 30 years now, I’ve experienced every step of the coaching journey from local community club right up to Grand Slams, Olympics and Fed Cup, so I understand the importance of having great coaches at every stage and every level of the game.”
She will be presented with the award at a prestigious event in London next month.