HANOI: Vietnam has been hosting their first professional tennis tournament this week, but players and coaches hold out little hope that the sport is about to take off in the communist country.
With daily ticket prices for the Vietnam Open costing more than two weeks of wages for the average resident, it's unlikely that tennis fever will quickly spread beyond its current preserve of the urban elite.
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