JUDY'S GRAND SLAM

Tennis coach, Strictly dancer and now murder mystery writer: Judy Murray is a force of nature

- LAURA BENJAMIN

When Judy Murray wants something done she doesn’t sit around and wait for someone else to do it.

“I'm definitely one of these people who, if I see something that needs to be done, I either use my voice or create a programme to find a solution for it,” she tells HELLO! in this exclusive interview.

It’s this attitude that gave the Scottish former tennis coach, who is both mother and mentor to Grand Slam champions Andy and Jamie Murray, the confidence to start a career as an author.

Her literary endeavours began after she struck up a friendship with Anton du Beke, her partner on Strictly Come Dancing in 2014.

NOVEL APPROACH

The dancer and author sent her a proof of one of his books during the Covid-19 pandemic. “I went through it with my red pen and marked it up because I wasn’t doing anything else — I did it quite thoroughly,” she laughs.

Anton suggested that she start writing too, using tennis as a backdrop. Her first book, Wild Card, was a hit last year and her second, Game, Set & Murder, was released last week.

Judy describes the book — a murder mystery set In a tennis club, with the coach killed right at the start of the story – as “Big Little Lies meets Wimbledon”, with a whole host of characters as the potential villain.