Faulkner

From the UK 🇬🇧

From Colorado 🇺🇸

From NYC 🇺🇸

Tennis will be in trouble without its superstars at their best, and they will have trouble commanding the world stage with so many other sports returning from long delays to fanfare. They haven’t done a great job of building the next generation of stars (Tsitsipas, Medvedev, Thiem, Bianca, Naomi, and Kenin are all great and play the social game well, but not sure any of them are even close to household names).

From Costa Rica 🇨🇷

Pushed to summer 2021, at the latest.

From Houston 🇺🇸

RIP.

Also, Kim Clijsters. This throws a wrench in her comeback. What will happen to Victoria Azarenka? Will she try to return after being out for so long? Lots of questions about what tennis will look like once this is all over.

What did they say?

For aging players like Roger, Serena, and Venus, I wonder what will happen to their careers. They aren’t getting any younger. Even Novak and Rafa (and folks like Stan) must feel like they are being robbed of chances to pad their resumes before the steep decline.

With the UK on lockdown and the Olympics on the verge of moving dates, I don’t see how Wimbledon doesn’t cancel or postpone sooner rather than later. Meanwhile...