Andy Murray’s rarely-seen father has revealed how his sons were ‘distraught’ when he split from his wife Judy, claiming the divorce ‘ripped him apart’.
Speaking ahead of what could be his son’s last ever tennis match at the Paris Olympics on Tuesday, Andy’s father William discussed the effect his divorce had on the tennis star and his brother Jamie.
William married Judy in 1980 and went on to have two children – Jamie in 1986 and Andy a year later in 1987.
The couple divorced in 1987 after being separated for nine years and the boys lived with their dad.
Both Andy and Jamie took the news of the divorce hard, their father said, telling the Daily Record: ‘I had to tell them that their mum was leaving home. It ripped me apart to have to hurt them by telling them what I did. They were distraught. They are very different personalities but they took the news much the same way.’
