Tennis legend Andy Murray has signed up for chess lessons to beat a five-year-old

Tennis ace joins chess website to pick up tips to help him defeat youngster Teddy who has only been playing two months but has quite an analytical mind

Jerry Lawton Chief Reporter

20:53, 22 Jul 2025Updated 20:53, 22 Jul 2025

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Andy Murray has signed up for chess lessons - so he can beat his five-year-old son. The tennis ace was stunned youngster Teddy was better than him just two months after taking up the game.

So he has signed up to an online chess training website to pick up some tips. It allows players to pit their wits against board bots to improve their game.

The two-time Wimbledon champs mum Judy told the How To Be 60 podcast: Teddy started playing chess a couple of months ago and he can already beat his dad and his grandpa and his uncle.

Judy said triple Grand Slam champ Andy - known to be fiercely competitive - could not let such a defeat go unchallenged. Hes now signed on this thing, I think its called Chess.com , and he is practising like crazy, she said. Hes got to up his game.

Andy, 38, has told previously how Teddy had got massively into chess and he was really enjoying playing with him. The retired tennis star said though he was not a particularly good chess player he had got quite an analytical mind.

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He said: I enjoy the game and watching him learn and playing with him. Its difficult losing to a five-year-old when in the middle of the game hes asking you to come and wipe his bum, essentially.

Hes gone to the toilet in the middle of the game and then he comes back and hes beating me at chess. Its humbling that for my intelligence.

Since his retirement Andy has also taken up golf - and beat Wimbledon runner-up Carlos Alacaraz in the build-up to this year's tournament.

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