By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Saturday April 4, 2020
What can you do when the world shuts down and governments tell you to stay in to avoid spreading a scary virus? Tennis, on social media, gives its answer. Here is how some of today’s WTA and ATP stars are coping with social distancing and Coronavirus, as they react to the recent news of Wimbledon cancellation.
1.Starting with the the rough news, which broke on Wednesday – Wimbledon is cancelled fo the first time in 70 years.
2. Attitude is everything when you are facing challenges, says Garbiñe Muguruza.
3. Practice makes perfect even if it is in the snow…
4.Alex de Minaur is a chip shot wizard!
5. Looks like Matteo Berretti and Ajla Tomljanovic are practicing good teamwork in quarantine.
6. Have no fear, Grigor Dimitrov is here to inspire.
7. Keep Fighting, says the king of clay.
8.Daria Gavrilova is going a bit stir crazy, yowza!
9. Love the footwork from Elise Mertens here—not that is how you do it.
10. Awwww. Look at the Osaka sisters from back in the day. Adorable!
11. The immensely talented Daria Kasatkina shows us how to properly school a wall…
12. Tennis celebrates the gritty David Ferrer’s b-day—some good news in bleh times.
13. Feeling down? The ATP is here to PUMP YOU UP!
We don’t know when tennis will be back, but we’ll be ready. Stay home. Stay active. Save lives. #tennisathome . (📹: @jamie__murray, @dieschwartzman, @pablo_carreno_, @johnnyhm, @lorenzosonego, @iamgaelmonfils, @norriee, @delpotrojuan, @janniksin, @bamlukebridge, @grigordimitrov, @ivokarlovic)
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14. Great to see this. Rafa thanks Nole for a generous donation made…
15. And we leave you with tennis’ newest impressionist, Casper Ruud. Can you name the four players he is imitating?