Võ Văn Bảy

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.

Võ won the Malaysian Championships in 1969.

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.

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. He was 40 years of age at that time and also defeated Jun Kamiwazumi in the reverse singles. Provided by Wikipedia