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New Orleans East Tennis Club
Posted on 1/3/22 at 3:45 pm
Posted on 1/3/22 at 3:45 pm
What was the name and location of the tennis club in New Orleans East, built during the tennis boom of the 70s-80s? I remember is was high end and some pros spent their training months there.
Disappeared after the oil bust and subsequent decline at Michoud and the East.
Disappeared after the oil bust and subsequent decline at Michoud and the East.
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Posted on 1/3/22 at 3:46 pm to NewBR
Eastover?
Posted on 1/3/22 at 3:46 pm to NewBR
Kerry Curley 
Posted on 1/3/22 at 3:50 pm to NewBR
Pretty sure they called it the Damir Dokic Courts for awhile.
Posted on 1/3/22 at 4:25 pm to TheFonz
New Orleans East Racket Club - I know a fair amount about it.
Posted on 1/3/22 at 4:30 pm to Bayou
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Kerry Curley
I played at Kerry Curley, definitely not Kerry Curley
Posted on 1/3/22 at 4:36 pm to NewBR
Posted on 1/3/22 at 4:41 pm to NewBR
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built during the tennis boom of the 70s-80s? I remember is was high end and some pros spent their training months there.
Why is tennis so ‘out of style’ now ? When i was a little kid there were some cool cats like McEnroe and Agassi playing, and even now, i like playing tennis more than more popular sports like golf - singles tennis I mean, not sure why doubles tennis even exists.. but singles tennis is a great workout, and very social and fun.. i was watching an episode of the old Magnum PI recently and there was an entire episode devoted to him playing tennis- if it’s cool enough for Magnum, it should still be cool ! Personally i just think we need another great American male player to come along, like the ones I mentioned above, sort of a Tiger Woods of tennis, and it could boom again .
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This post was edited on 1/3/22 at 4:44 pm
Posted on 1/3/22 at 5:02 pm to oVo
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I played at Kerry Curley
I did, too, as a tike
Posted on 1/3/22 at 6:16 pm to NewBR
The New Orleans Racquet Club. It was one of the finest tennis clubs in the United States and routinely had top US tennis players playing there. Borg, McEnroe, Conners, Navratilova, Chris Everett, etc.
It also had its own swim team for kids and really nice clubhouse. It used to host the US Junior Nationals.
It also had its own swim team for kids and really nice clubhouse. It used to host the US Junior Nationals.
This post was edited on 1/3/22 at 6:18 pm
Posted on 1/3/22 at 7:04 pm to NewBR
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New Orleans East Tennis Club
Where was it?
South side of I-10 between Read & Dwyer. When you see the Lake in the background as you are driving past that's where it used to be.
Posted on 1/3/22 at 7:05 pm to BK Lounge
Tennis is out of style because athletic kids play one sport year round. Growing up I played tennis most days in the summer. There was no travel baseball or 7 on 7 football.
Posted on 1/3/22 at 7:08 pm to NewBR
Posted on 1/3/22 at 7:08 pm to NewBR
It is next to the third Vietnamese wrecker yard past the dumpster.
Posted on 1/3/22 at 7:09 pm to NewBR
What happened to New Orleans East? It was an oasis back in the 80s.
Posted on 1/3/22 at 7:13 pm to BigPerm30
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What happened to New Orleans East? It was an oasis back in the 80s.
What happened to almost EVERY part of New Orleans?
Or the United States, for that matter; it feels as though the entire country’s infrastructure is crumbling.
Posted on 1/3/22 at 7:21 pm to Warfox
Signs of a crumbling empire. Most of it engineered by those higher up the food chain.
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