Judy Murray set to play tennis with members of the public at the Meadows in aid of Charity

The event, run by the Judy Murray Foundation, hopes to make tennis more accessible for everyone across Scotland.

It will take place on Friday, November 13 and will offer tennis sessions with the star coach between 7pm and 9pm.

Branded as ‘fun tennis’, the event will include music and tennis-related drills and activities to encourage people of all abilities to participate.

Judy and six other coaches will lead the events across the six Edinburgh Leisure floodlit courts, with a maximum total of 50 people on all of the available courts at once.

Judy, who thought of the idea, said: “Not enough of our public parks have tennis courts these days as we’ve lost a lot of them over the years.

"At the Meadows there are sixteen courts, six of them floodlit, and one of our ambassadors Alex Harkins works at Edinburgh Leisure and he runs the tennis programme at the Meadows so I thought let’s go to a public park and let’s put on as big an activity we are allowed to at the moment.

“Whether you have played a very little amount of tennis or whether you are a good player, it won’t matter.”

“We can have a bit of fun and at the same time raise money for Children in Need.”

During the night, Judy will be going around the courts ensuring everyone has their A-game on.

A professional coach to many, including her own famous son Andy, Judy praised tennis for bringing families together as well as offering them an affordable activity over lockdown.

She said: “Tennis for me is the number one family sport because it fits men, women, boys, girls- it’s something you can do from probably about 6 years old to 96 years old so this event is showing how you can make tennis more affordable for a number of people.”

Anyone aged 12 years and above is welcome to sign up and play a spot of tennis with the star.

Equipment will be provided if required and a donation of £5 is suggested on arrival.

Organisers hope to split the evening into two 45-minutes sessions with a maximum of eight people on one court at a time.

Aware of the importance of adhering to social distancing during the event, Judy said: “We have to be very careful with what we do but tennis is one of those sports where you are separated by the net and the way we’ll be doing everything, because a lot of it will be the coach feeding out of the basket on the night, is not so much about players having to hit with each other or play together- it will be more of a tennis workout to music.

"It will be a bit like an aerobics session. ”

As the event takes place in November, Judy urges her players to get their warm clothes on.

The BBC will be filming the activities over the course of the night for Children in Need and Judy will be giving a live interview as the event takes place.

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