Andy Murray's daughter 'really struggled' because of his tennis career as Brit opens up
Andy Murray has revealed that his eldest daughter struggled the most when he ended his professional tennis career last summer. Retiring from the game wasn’t just an adjustment for Murray, who has now set himself a quest to become a scratch golfer. His family also had to get used to having him around.
The former world No. 1 and his wife, Kim, have four children, but welcomed their first child, Sophia, in 2016, while Murray was still very active on the tour. And the 38-year-old has now explained that it made things difficult when he finally hung up his racket.
During an appearance on the Tennis Podcast, Murray was asked whether his family had to adjust to having him at home more in retirement. “I think so. Particularly my eldest daughter,” he replied.
“The rest of them not so much because, yes I was still playing at the end, but there was also quite a few periods where I was at home a lot through the injuries and things, so I wasn’t on the road quite as much. Whereas with my eldest daughter, it was, I think, quite a big change for her, a big adjustment.
“She was finding it hard if I had to be the one to take her to school or to pick her up and take her to a club or being around her friends and things like that, and that’s something that she certainly was finding difficult, and if I was getting any attention when I was with her, she really struggled with that.”
Murray said farewell at the Olympics last summer, reaching the doubles quarter-finals alongside Dan Evans before he was sent into retirement. It’s now been 16 months since the three-time Grand Slam champion bowed out of the game, and it appears that Sophia has only just gotten over the “embarrassment” of having Murray accompany her in public.
