Miami Open likely to be next tournament called offClay season,
French Open and
Wimbledon all under threatTennis was hurled into the coronavirus maelstrom on Monday after the overnight cancellation of the Indian Wells Masters, the biggest event outside the four majors. It also looks likely that the similarly important Miami Open, due to start on 25 March, will be called off.
Rolling disruptions to the schedule will continue, according to informed sources, although they say it is too early to make a call on the French Open or Wimbledon in mid-summer. Tennis’s participation in the Tokyo Olympics in July – along with that of all other sports – will be determined further down the road by the International Olympic Committee, who so far have dithered with spectacular predictability.