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Tennis' future uncertain in Vietnam

By Bonnie DeSimone
Special to ESPN.com

Monday, October 3, 2005

Tennis migrated to Vietnam with its French occupiers and remained a game for the rich for many years. Two decades of war left the game and many courts in disrepair. Among the survivors were courts at the elegant Cercle Sportif country club in what was then called Saigon, a gathering place for VIPs during the 1950s and '60s and now a public park. Courts near Tan Son Nhut Airport were the first location of the U.S. Army stockade later known as Long Binh Jail, and served as helicopter landing pad ...

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