The renewal of its 25-year-old lease prompted club members to realise that the club must also therefore be 25 years old this year.

Although a number of players had originally grouped together and played on the public tennis courts in Dee Street, the club formally came into being when it moved to its current location in the Burnett Park in 1983.

Since then, the club has seen quite a few changes, not only in membership, but in the building - in the early 1990s - of a small clubhouse (many hours of hard labour were put in by members!) and the laying of a completely new surface to the courts some years ago.

To celebrate the anniversary, and also to award prizes to all the winners and runners-up in the recent club championships, both senior and junior, the club is holding a ceilidh to the music of Ceilidh Stomp in Banchory Town Hall from 7.30pm tomorrow (Friday).

Tickets are £10 per person, including stovies (vegetarian option provided). Anyone interested in attending should call either Lynsey Young on (01330) 820098 or Hilary Cowe on (01330) 824287 for tickets.

The club has tried to contact as many founder and former members of the club as it can to invite them personally to the event, but inevitably some will have been missed out, for which they apologise. But they hope many of them will join the club at tomorrow's ceilidh.

Once the celebrations are completed, the club will turn its thoughts to its next major project - a plan to extend the now rather cramped clubhouse to allow the club to have its own kitchen and sanitary facilities.

Planning permission has been granted and the club will hold its AGM in November to discuss plans further.