Wimbledon 2012: Judy Murray, the toughest mother in tennis Dressed in blue and purple tartan, she was still on her feet cheering her son, shouting "Come on!" after the crucial game in the fourth set when Federer broke Murray's serve - and then right through to the end. The rest of the time she sat back ramrod straight, clapping when her son won a point; when he lost one, her face was taut with anxiety, and she rubbed her hands not even glancing at Simon Fuller (Andy's manager) to her right. She's often subjected to astonishing vitriol about her appearance and behaviour on Twitter (where as @judmoo she has 28,000 followers) and has been dogged by the label of pushy parent; last year Boris Becker even surmised that her courtside appearances were stopping Murray from achieving grand slam victory. Yet most mothers will understand her fierce pride on her talented son's part; criticized for her fist-pumping, vocal support of Murray, she once said: "I know that when Andy looks up, he wants to see some kind of positive reaction. You will never find me doing anything negative like shaking my head. Never, ever. And observers of the tennis scene point to the fact that, unlike many tennis parent/child relationships, which end up strained if not broken completely, she and Andy remain on very close terms - she still irons his shirts and has been known to jump on a plane to bring him the correct tennis shoes. "My mum's the one person who gets me, who understands me really well," Murray has said. A former professional player herself and talented coach (she was Scotland's national coach before Murray became famous and now captains the British Fed Cup team) she taught Andy to play with cereal packets, tin lids and a table tennis ball on the kitchen table. Now, despite the criticism she has faced, two decades on she has produced a player who can give a player as legendary as Federer a run for his money. When Murray managed to joke "I'm getting closer," after the match, you know that there will be a 52-year-old diminutive Scot wiping away her tears, then standing up cheering him on - right to the very last point.