Mother of Scottish tennis revolution Murray taken aback by progress

Startled and very, very happy. Mrs M tends to regard her annual trip to the Australian Open as a holiday. She schedules a few meetings and a couple of bits and pieces of work but basically she is here to watch Andy's matches and soak up the sunshine. This year, though, she has been running around like a wet hen, scurrying from court to court as the Scots have stamped their mark on the championships.

The first week of the Open saw the Saltire flutter proudly over a number of courts as Andy marched through the draw – he was due to play his fourth round match against John Isner in the early hours of this morning – Elena Baltacha, below, reached the third round and Colin Fleming, one half of the "Flemski" team with Ken Skupski, made his debut in the doubles and reached the second round. All in all, it was an unbelievable achievement from the Scots.

"It has been really amazing," Judy said. "I don't remember ever having three people to cheer for at a grand slam, certainly it's not happened in my lifetime. But it's one thing to get here but it's another thing to be winning matches here and certainly to watch Elena winning through two rounds and in her second match, seeing her playing really good, controlled, aggressive tennis, that was very special. Then to see Colin here for the first time and winning a match, it is amazing.

"You can look back and you can remember them when they were eight and nine years old and it was all great fun. I'm not saying I played a huge part in what they did, but it's just when you remember taking them overseas for the first time, and then you see them in the biggest events and they're winning matches, you'd never have dreamed that it was going to lead to that."

Certainly, when she started out with the current crop of players some 17 years ago, she never imagined that it could all turn out so well. She arranged her first junior tournament when Andy was only five. He was desperate to play proper matches but there were no competitions for very young boys with very big ambitions so Judy called a few coaches, gathered a few kids together and organised a tournament. Andy and Jamie both played, as did Fleming and Baltacha, and that proved to be the beginning of the long road to this year's Australian Open.

Judy is not one to rest on her laurels, though. With Scottish tennis doing so well on the biggest stages in the sport, now is the time to develop the game at home and ensure that the opportunities she created for her sons, for Fleming, Jamie Baker and the rest are available to the next generation of wannabe Andy Murrays. At the moment there are only six public indoor tennis centres in the whole of Scotland.

"Now, surely people's eyes will be opened and they will be saying 'come on, let's invest in facilities in Scotland'," she said. "It's got to happen or we're going to miss the boat completely."

Judy is prepared to put her money – or certainly her reputation – where her mouth is. She intends to open a tennis academy and club in the south of Scotland by 2012. The aim is to create a club environment to attract players of every age and standard and within that set-up, to create an elite section to train and produce players and coaches. The coaches would then work within the local community – and all of this is to be done at an affordable price for the membership.

"I don't want to set this up as a huge money-making venture," she said. "I want it to be a model that could work not just in Scotland but in the rest of Britain. I reckon I've got ten good working years before I get too decrepit, and I would like to be able to develop more coaches.

"So therefore, if I had a base, that was a really good teaching base, then the LTA could send coaches in for a week, a month, six months, a year, because the best way to learn is to work alongside someone who knows what they're doing."