Võ Văn Bảy
Country (sports) South Vietnam
Born(1931-07-18)18 July 1931
Vĩnh Long, Vietnam
Died24 November 1998(1998-11-24) (aged 67)
Singles
Grand Slam singles results
French Open1R (1954)

Võ Văn Bảy (18 July 1931 – 24 November 1998) was a Vietnamese tennis player.

Born in Vĩnh Long, Võ was a table tennis player in his youth and took up tennis after he moved to Saigon. He was South Vietnam's leading player from the mid-1950s through to the 1970s.[1]

Võ won the Malaysian Championships in 1969.[2]

A two-time Asian Games medalist in doubles, Võ won regular medals for South Vietnam at the Southeast Asian Games, including a singles gold in 1961. He won six Southeast Asian Games men's doubles gold medals.[1]

Võ competed for the South Vietnam Davis Cup team from 1964 to 1974, featuring in 14 ties. Most famously he won a Davis Cup rubber over the Japanese number one Toshiro Sakai at Saigon in 1972.[3] He was 40 years of age at that time and also defeated Jun Kamiwazumi in the reverse singles.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Quái kiệt Võ Văn Bảy tung hoành SEAP Games". Thanh Niên (in Vietnamese). 24 November 2019.
  2. ↑ "Võ Văn Bảy - người thách thức thời gian". Tuổi Trẻ (in Vietnamese). 19 November 2005.
  3. ↑ "Miss Goolagong Beats Miss Wade". The New York Times. 9 April 1972.
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