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Radio 4. My castaway this week is Judy Murray. A tennis coach since she was 17. She's the current

British captain of the Fed Cup, the Premier team competition in Women's Tennis, she was herself at one time

ranked eighth in Britain. Achievement's worth celebrating. But of course what she's best known for is being

the ultimate tennis mum. Both her sons have reached the top flight of the game,

one as Wimbledon mixed doubles champ, the other becoming the first Brit to win the men's singles in 77 years. In the moments after Andy Murray's heroic win on

center court last year, it was to her he turned pumping his fists and roaring as if to say,

we have done it.

If you're one of her many followers on social media,

you'll know how she spends her time

countless hours trawling up and down the country,

coaching and working to inspire children to take up the game.

She says, I've always been competitive. I'm like Andy or maybe he's like me. I wear my heart on my sleeve and

when something is great then, y I am right into it and so

Judy Murray we have watched you countless times on the television being right into it you know

there you are you know the the fists are clenched and you look like you are just

sweating every moment of it. How does it actually feel to be in the moments watching one of your sons play?

Yeah, it hasn't got any easier in fact it's probably

got worse as the as the level of expectation has increased but the best I could

describe it is a kind of a mixture of a heart attack and severe nausea all going on at the same time. But I do try not

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