Downtown Tennis Courts In Trouble / History Lesson on ABQ Tennis

Respecting the Roots

The Barelas courts have a link to Albuquerque’s past, but their future is clouded with questions.

Once upon a century ago, the center of Albuquerque had public tennis courts.

One of those venues, the popular "Zoo courts," stood alongside what became the Rio Grande Zoological Park, on 10^th Street SW in the Barelas neighborhood.  The Zoo courts were torn down about 1970, and a replacement, also referred to by some as the Zoo courts, was soon in place a few hundred yards east...

Read this great article here:

http://www.southwest.usta.com/news/cp_respecting_the_roots/