But the Scot, who retired from tennis in 2024 after reaching the quarter-finals of the men\u2019s doubles with Dan Evans at the Paris Olympics, adopts a calmer courtside demeanour when watching his son. \u201cI am a good sports dad,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t do any of that. Definitely not.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pushy parents are a well-documented issue in tennis, especially on the junior circuit, where children often specialise in the sport as young as nine. An expensive individual sport that requires private coaching, it is not uncommon for parents to act as managers, drivers and financial backers early on.<\/p>\n
Tennis has a long history of parent coaches with Serena and Venus Williams \u2013 who were coached from an early age by their father, Richard \u2013 being the most notable example. Ben Shelton, this year\u2019s US Open finalist, Casper Ruud, Flavio Cobolli and Leylah Fernandez are more recent examples of players who are coached by their fathers.<\/p>\n
Murray\u2019s own mother, Judy, was a passionate tennis coach and played a hugely influential role in getting her sons, Andy and Jamie, into the sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But the Scot, who retired from tennis in 2024 after reaching the quarter-finals of the men\u2019s doubles with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[6764,217,101,5438,118,56,54,55,157732],"class_list":["post-785750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-andy-murray","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-standard","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-us-content"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}