Croatia's Donna Vekic won the opening match at the season-resuming Palermo WTA AFP/John DONEGANPALERMO, Italy: The stadium announcer at Palermo on Monday wished a warm and welcome return to tennis lovers as the WTA tournament in Italy started five months after the last one, with bottles of hand sanitiser attached to the nets.
Sofia Kenin and Elina Svitolina captured titles on Mar 8, the last day of competitive matches before the circuit was put on hold as the tennis calendar was shaken upside down. When Croatia's Donna Vekic and the Netherlands' Arantxa Rus took to the clay-court late on Monday some 150 days after the sport's hiatus started they were not wearing face masks.After Vekic won there was a video press-conference where she told media she was happy to have remembered how to play tennis.
There were hand gel bottles placed everywhere in the passages between the seats and in the entrances.
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