Friday, 03 Apr 2020 06:16 AM MYT
The outbreak has played havoc with the global sporting calendar and the Wimbledon championships were cancelled by the AELTC on Wednesday for the first time since the second World War. “One hopes that things have settled down a bit and those big 1,000-point tournaments — Montreal, Toronto, Cincinnati — can happen in the lead-up to the US Open. We all know that’s probably tenuous at the moment.
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