HIGH hopes were expressed for the future of Scottish tennis when a new facility was opened in Glasgow in early 1960.
The Scottish School of Tennis was part of the Glasgow Indoor Sports Centre, in Taylor Street, off Cathedral Street.
Principal and chief coach of the school, and manager of the centre, was Mitchell Currie, a member of the Lawn Tennis Professionals’ Association of Great Britain, and a leading pro coach in Scotland.
The school of tennis, he told the Evening Times, “is dedicated to promoting the playing standards throughout Scotland with a view to placing our players higher up the international rankings.” He is pictured here, scrutinising the playing method of one pupil.
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The Herald DiaryThe indoor sports centre itself, which was located in a spacious former Army drill hall, offered tuition and coaching in golf, table tennis, weight-lifting, judo, netball and Scottish country dancing, with football to follow shortly.
Among the instructors were golfer Fred Bullock, the heroic runner-up at the 1959 Open at Muirfield; weightlifter James Moir, who had taken part in the Empire Games, and Scottish country-dancing expert Sheena Meldrum.
The centre was also the headquarters not just of the West of Scotland Table Tennis Association but also of the Scottish Judo Council.
In addition, said the Evening Times, it was the Scottish venue for international netball matches.
The indoor centre, the paper observed, was a unique place of its kind, “and it can only be hoped that the authorities will take note of Mr Currie’s excellent enterprise and that they themselves will promote further centres.”
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