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It’s been a special and an unforgettable year for a Scottish family from Dunblane.

After more than 20 years of playing tennis including years of heart-break and hard work has paid off for Andy and Jamie, as they both end 2016 as world number one.
Judy Murray marks the special occasion by congratulating her sons on Twitter by posting old pictures for the public to show their journeys.

Judy Murray congratulated each son with tweets on becoming world number one.

Judy Murray congratulated Andy when he became world number one for the first time on the 5th of November, with a heart-warming tweet captioned as ‘you’ve come a long way baby’ beside a picture of Andy as a child being trained by Judy. This was after he reached the final of the BNP Paribas Masters and Novak Djokovic lost in the quarter-finals against Marin Cilic. This lead to the Brit earning enough ranking points to surpass the Serbian to top the rankings.

Since 1973, this was the first time a Brit has become world number one and brought an end to Djokovic’s 122-week run of being world number one.

He was crowned world no.1 at the age of 29 which is the second oldest player to achieve world no.1 for their very first time behind John Newcombe who was aged 30.

A proud Judy Murray also congratulated Jamie when he and Bruno Soares was crowned the top ranked doubles team after his doubles success in ATP World Tour Finals.