By opening up about his emotions, Andy Murray is helping all men

For the first time, the tennis star has spoken about the event that undoubtedly had a huge impact on his childhood development: the Dunblane massacre

Andy Murray has often been a difficult sportsman to warm to, but a new documentary on Amazon Prime shows how far this truculent, tortured genius has come.

The birth of his children and a marriage have seen the emergence of a much happier man, but one who can still seem reluctant to talk about his emotions.

Originally, the film was planned as a way of charting Murray’s recovery from hip injury and major surgery, but it has also achieved something extraordinary.

For the first time, he opens up about a life-changing event which undoubtedly had a huge impact on his childhood development – the Dunblane massacre, when a gunman shot and killed 16 children and a teacher at his primary school.

Murray clearly finds it so traumatic he cannot face the camera and talks from underneath the duvet in his hotel room. It happened in 1996 when he was eight and his brother 10, and then his parents divorced.

At 32, finally, this difficult man is opening up and demonstrating emotional intelligence. If he had confronted it earlier, would his game have been more consistent? By finally letting his emotions show, Murray is helping other young men.