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Knowing the Score: My Family and Our Tennis Story

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ISBN: 9781784741808
AuthorMURRAY, JUDY
Pub Date15/06/2017
BindingTrade PB
Pages288
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Quick overview What happens when you find you have exceptional children? Do you panic? Put your head in the sand? Or risk everything and jump in head first? This memoir charts the challenges the author has faced, from desperate finances and growing pains to hostile press conferences and entrenched sexism.
€17.77

It was the day I put the tennis balls into the tumble dryer that I realised I thought about tennis a little bit differently. What happens when you find you have exceptional children? Do you panic? Put your head in the sand? Or risk everything and jump in head first? As mother to tennis champions Jamie and Andy Murray, Scottish National Coach, coach of the Fed Cup, and general all-round can-do woman of wonder, Judy Murray is the ultimate role model for believing in yourself and reaching out to ambition. As a parent, coach, leader, she is an inspiration who has revolutionised British tennis. From the soggy community courts of Dunblane to the white heat of Centre Court at Wimbledon, Judy Murray's extraordinary memoir charts the challenges she has faced, from desperate finances and growing pains to hostile press conferences and entrenched sexism. We all need a story of 'yes we can' to make us believe great things are possible. This is that story.

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It was the day I put the tennis balls into the tumble dryer that I realised I thought about tennis a little bit differently. What happens when you find you have exceptional children? Do you panic? Put your head in the sand? Or risk everything and jump in head first? As mother to tennis champions Jamie and Andy Murray, Scottish National Coach, coach of the Fed Cup, and general all-round can-do woman of wonder, Judy Murray is the ultimate role model for believing in yourself and reaching out to ambition. As a parent, coach, leader, she is an inspiration who has revolutionised British tennis. From the soggy community courts of Dunblane to the white heat of Centre Court at Wimbledon, Judy Murray's extraordinary memoir charts the challenges she has faced, from desperate finances and growing pains to hostile press conferences and entrenched sexism. We all need a story of 'yes we can' to make us believe great things are possible. This is that story.

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