A public tennis court in West Lothian is set to be upgraded after a regular player slipped on loose stones, tripped and broke a wrist earlier this year
With the annual Wimbledon tournament about to start there is expected to be a surge in public interest as people to look out racquets and have a go. And West Lothian Council insisted Bathgate’s Kirkton Park tennis courts would remain open while the Wimbledon tournament was on, with a contractor expected to be appointed to carry out the work in July.
The surface of the court had started to break up. And according to a report to the council’s Governance and Risk committee: “ it is deteriorating with age resulting in areas of the bonded surface breaking loose. This is causing small stones to gather on the court's surface.”
