Running 2020 Tennis Thread

I wasn’t clear; he’s my favorite of the Big 3 because of his career path and his amazing play. Like you point out, he’s such a clean player and then a mental beast. Him coming back this weekend when he looked like toast. I was rooting for him to win.

 

Djokovic tested positive for da rona today

 

sad tennis-is-the-perfect-pandemic-sport trombone

 

I think it's less about the sport and more about where these players are going outside of the sport. Tennis is probably as about as safe as you can get when it comes to person-to-person transmission. Just not a lot of close contact involved. But if you head out to a bar after your day is done ...

 

True as that is, sports don't occur in a vacuum. Even in "bubble" settings like Disneyworld, athletes - and support people - are going to violate quarantine.

I'll be interested to see, for example, how far down the road we get toward this year's US Open.

The likelihood of maintaining some sort of sterile field in which televised sports will occur is a longshot.

 

At least Djoker doesn't have to worry about taking the vaccine he said he didn't want to take.

 

Completely sterile? You're absolutely right. But I think the hope is that we get to the point in those settings that one or two positives isn't going to derail the whole thing. Quarantine them, contact trace, etc. That's doable in those bubbles. But to your point, that's why I think college football/basketball is going to be a tough road to hoe this year. Trying to convince 20-year-old kids to not go out when their friends are doing it and bars and clubs are open is going to be a chore.

 

Ive rooted hard for Joker since he broke though in 2011 with that fantastic season after being behind the Big 2 for so long. Now, with what’s he’s been doing with the COVID tourney and now breaking away from ATP and leaving the WTA behind makes me think he’s all about himself and leaving others behind. Starting to reevaluate my fandom.

 

City "hopes to show how to hold a big event safely in a pandemic."

There are no fans. That's 98.3 percent of how to do it.

 

Heard just a mind-boggling fact while watching the Open yesterday.

Neither Roger Federer nor Rafael Nadal are playing in this year's U.S. Open. The last time this tournament was played without either one in the field was... 1999.