YORK tennis fans are to be served up a treat, as Judy Murray comes to this year’s Festival of Ideas.

Former Scottish international player and national coach, Judy Murray, will be in the city on Sunday, June 17, to talk about her book, Knowing the Score: My Family and Our Tennis Story, which is out now.

With 64 national titles to her name, Mrs Murray has had a distinguished career in the sport, including supporting her two famous tennis champion sons, Jamie and Andy.

She will discuss this and the challenges she has faced, including her once desperate finances, growing pains and entrenched sexism within the sport.

Mrs Murray became the Scottish national coach in 1995 and, in the same year, was the first woman to pass the Lawn Tennis Association’s (LTA) performance coach award.

She was responsible for the Scottish Development School programme, which went on to produce four players for Davis Cup (the premier international men’s tennis tournament), including her two Grand-Slam-winning sons, and one for Fed Cup (the premier international women’s tournament).

In 2011, Mrs Murray was appointed captain of the British Fed Cup team, and has used this role to grow the profile and numbers of both players and coaches in women’s tennis. She has also developed several initiatives, including Miss-Hits, a starter programme for girls aged five to eight, Tennis on the Road, which takes tennis into remote and deprived parts of Scotland, and most recently, She Rallies, a programme with the LTA to encourage more women and girls into the game around the UK.

The Festival of Ideas was established and is co-ordinated by the University of York.

This year’s festival runs from 5-17 June and will host a range of mainly free events, including talks, performances and exhibitions, based on the theme of Imagining the Impossible.

For tickets and information go to http://yorkfestivalofideas.com from Tuesday, May 8.