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PLAY TENNIS WITH JUDY MURRAY
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’m back in the luxury five star Quinta Do Lago resort in the Algarve, Portugal, to meet up with Judy Murray who is there running kids tennis camps in partnership with The Campus, Europe’s
premier wellness resort.
The Campus is a somewhat unique project. Their aim being to create a sport and wellness facility that caters to the top athletes in all sports, but also offers the facilities to the public. In essence you can train and be coached by the very best celebrity athletes in football, tennis, padel, cycling and golf. These opportunities are aimed at all ages, from the youngest kids to the oldest sportsmen looking to improve.
Everyone dreams of training with those that have achieved the greatest accolades in their chosen field, well here you can. Rio Ferdinand holds coaching classes, as well as Judy Murray for tennis, Paul McGinley for golf, Mark Rohan for cycling and even the Team GB triathletes train here too. The Campus was chosen as a pre-season training base by the British Triathlon Elite Team in 2018 and not just for the weather.
Murray has been coaching for over 30 years and of course her two sons Andy and Jaime started under her tutelage, both going on to become world number ones in singles and doubles respectively, winning
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a combined eight grand slams. That’s a pretty impressive track record, yet Murray is still ambitious to bring the game to a wider audience. Murray is supported by Kris Soutar who is an LTA level 5 Master Performance Coach and has coached for 26 years. Soutar heads up Judy Murray’s Tennis on the Road programme where they travel all over Scotland to improve tennis teaching. They target disadvantaged areas like
Inverurie, Greenock and the east end of Glasgow to give more children the opportunity to play tennis, keep fit and join in activities that might otherwise be difficult for them to access.
Judy Murray has partnered with Quinta Do Lago to bring these skills to residents of the Algarve and guests in the resort. Alongside
the tennis courts and Bike
Shed, The Campus officially launched their new facilities in October, consisting of a high performance gym, state of the art aquatic, recovery, rehabilitation and wellness centre,
all designed to please
professional athletes and available to all. You are very likely to be rubbing shoulders with professional footballers and rugby players from top international
teams,
so you can train surrounded by the best. There is a gorgeous heated outdoor Pool, two plunge pools with a steam room and sauna, plus two large gymnasiums on the ground and upper floor, so you can amble happily between them trying different levels of equipment. You are supported by numerous gym coaches who will help you
I spoke to Judy Murray about her life long passion for tennis, she won 64 titles in Scotland and internationally herself, before coaching her two sons with such renowned success. Her love of the game is undiminished and she is determined to bring it to more people who may not normally have access to facilities. She has just returned from coaching in Singapore, Austria and China and is still brimming with energy and enthusiasm.
Her modern approach is to get children playing a series of simple games together that are easy and entertaining, designed to improve your tennis in a myriad of ways. More importantly Murray is concentrating
use the equipment properly and I even managed to get in a quick kick boxing lesson between the spinning and the yoga classes.
The Campus now boasts a new hybrid Desso GrassMaster® —the number one stadium pitch in the world. This pitch can copy the statistics from any ground in three days to replicate the exact conditions so athletes can practice in the same environment. They can even alter the grass length and ground tension. It does not get much more high tech than that. There is also a new modern sports bar and restaurant next door, Bovinos Steakhouse, where you can recover in style with a well needed cocktail or health juice, along with your steak.
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