Myth that sex bans improve players’ performances on court, says Judy Murray

The Strictly star said she never imagined she would be a tennis coach to her kids

SEX bans in tennis do not improve players’ performances on the court, according to tennis ace Andy Murray’s mother Judy.

Asked if sex bans worked, she told GB News: “No absolutely not. I mean, it’s part and parcel of life, isn’t it? And I think one of the things certainly on the tennis tour is it’s a very lonely existence.

“You’re travelling the world for probably 10 and a half, 11 months of the year, the circuit just goes on and on and on.

“So it’s really important to have as normal a social life as you can possibly have. And that’s why many, many players travel with family and partners.”

In a discussion during Breakfast with Eamonn Holmes and Isabel Webster, she was asked if her new novel “The Wild Card”, about a successful older tennis player, mirrored her own experiences.

She said: “I think it was a disaster on Strictly. I remember Craig Revel Horwood telling me I looked like I had rigour mortis.

“But, you know what, I had to go, I put myself out of my comfort zone and I had an absolute blessing.”

Judy added: “I would have loved to have been a tennis player, but seriously coming from Scotland back then all those years ago, we had no infrastructure, no indoor courts.

“We played tennis in the summer, you play something else in the winter. So it was always a pipe dream for me.

“I went to university and I started coaching as a volunteer at a local club when the boys were small and never would have imagined a career in tennis coaching, and never would have imagined my kids winning Grand Slams either.”