With the 2020 calendar cut to the bone and the US Open’s status in doubt, the sport can only cross its fingers for the future
Anyone who doubted that tennis was in a state of suspended animation was surely disabused of the notion after the 2020 calendar was cut to the bone over the past week or so – with more surgery to come.
The minor proliferation of small tournaments and brave experiments in reinventing formats of the game on the fringes of the main action have given the illusion of slow recovery after the lockdown that struck in March and was said to be ending in August. We are a long way from normality.
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