Formation
The tennis club functioned by interim committee until it was formally constituted at the first Annual General Meeting on Tuesday the 28th January 1969. In the intervening period fund-raising was by sale of waste paper to a local processing firm. Affiliation to the West of Scotland Lawn Tennis Association had been made in 1968 for the season 1969, when the club entered one gents team, one ladies team and a junior team in the league competitions.
The first two Tennisquick courts were not ready until 1969, so all matches in the first season were played away from home and match practice was held on hired municipal courts in Rutherglen. By the spring of 1970 the parent East Kilbride Sports Club pavilion was completed adjacent to the four porous concrete courts. This pavilion gave members changing facilities, showers, toilet, cloakrooms, a licensed function hall as well as two lounges and a kitchen. In the first two seasons the gents team went from the 11th Division, via a modified set-up, to the 3rd Division. During this time, they lost only one league game and also won the Junior Calcutta Cup in 1971. This cup success was repeated by the gents 2nd team in 1977. Meanwhile, the ladies team remained in Division 5.
In 1974 four young members (R Gibson, M McDougall, B Houston & J Morrison) played doubles for 45 hours continuously to establish a record. This was recognised in the 21st edition of the Guinness Book of Records. The sponsorship money raised by this feat went a long way towards the cost of floodlighting two courts in 1976.
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