This article was first published July 4, 2024
Shortly before she is due to take a look back through 20 years’ worth of newspaper cuttings from The Times and Sunday Times, Judy Murray receives a phone call in the Queen’s Club player lounge. It is the morning after her youngest son Andy retired from the second round of the Queen’s Club Championships and he has a lot to discuss as he ponders whether or not to have surgery on a spinal cyst.
Quite truthfully, this does not feel like the best time to take a joyous trip down memory lane. That conversation is followed two days later by an operation that ultimately was to deny Andy the opportunity to play one last singles match at