HAVANA — The makeshift nets were a tangle of wires, and the white lines were almost completely chipped away. The condition of the only two usable tennis courts here for Cuba’s national team of six women and 12 men had fallen into disrepair after years of neglect.
But four months ago, in the kind of bridge that looser restrictions on trade between the United States and Cuba aspires to, an American nonprofit group swooped in and rehabilitated the Cuban National Tennis Center, believed to be the only full-fledged courts on the island not part of a hotel or resort.