Tennis in Scotland is to profit by a £15m subsidizing drive to twofold the quantity of indoor courts to 225 inside the decade and support cooperation.
Garden Tennis Association CEO Michael Downey said the time had come to “seize the moment” and gain by Andy and Jamie Murray’s prosperity.
“We must create a lasting legacy with a purpose-built plan for Scotland,” Downey added.
Mel Young, administrator of sportscotland, trusts in expanded interest.
BBC Sports Personality of the Year Andy Murray, 29, closes 2016 top of the men’s singles rankings in the wake of winning Wimbledon and the ATP Tour finals this year.
More seasoned sibling Jamie, 30, and Brazilian copies accomplice Bruno Soares are the flow world number one men’s pairs group.
Furthermore, the Murrays’ kindred Scot Gordon Reid, 25, is top of the wheelchair tennis men’s rankings, having won the Australian Open and Wimbledon in 2016.
Downey said: “This unprecedented investment will make tennis more accessible, bringing certainty of play to a climate that sees on average 200 days rain a year and in a country that is under-resourced versus the rest of Britain and other European nations when it comes to the number of covered tennis courts per capita.”
Youthful affirmed that half of the £15m will originate from sport Scotland and the rest from the LTA and will “have a transformational impact on Scottish tennis”.
Tennis Scotland director Blane Dodds said the financing would demonstrate critical to the future achievement of the game in Scotland.
“This is what we all have been working towards to deliver an appropriate and ambitious legacy so the whole country benefits from the performances of our three world number ones: Gordon Reid, Jamie Murray and Andy Murray,” he said.
