Murray: I wish my family had been close

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Britain's No 1 tennis player returns from a back injury this week in the Masters Series in Rome, where he will play France's Gilles Simon in the first round.

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Family ties: Andy Murray and his mother, Judy

He believes his parents' break-up could have helped shape his competitive spirit and anger.

"Yes, I found it difficult," he said. "They didn't speak too much and they didn't get on too well together. They are just two different people. I think that's quite normal. I always felt there was maybe a little competition (between the parents), so if I stayed with my mother for two nights, then I should stay with my father for two nights.

"At Christmas, I didn't know how long to spend with each of them. I would get stuck in the middle of their arguments. I would get really upset, and one of the things I would have loved to have more than anything was a family that worked better together, although I love my mother and father to bits."

He was nine years old, and his brother, Davis Cup teammate Jamie, was 10 when Thomas Hamilton burst into their Dunblane primary school in 1996 and killed their teacher and 16 fellow pupils.

At the time of the attack the brothers were on their way to the gym and hid under a desk in the headmaster's study.

He says: "I can't remember enough about it. If I'd been older, maybe it would have been more significant. But I was too young to understand. If it happened now I'd be shocked and completely devastated."