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Wimbledon in 2021 partly due to grass maintenanceSerious reservations over holding this year’s Davis CupThis summer’s Wimbledon will almost certainly be abandoned on Wednesday and the Davis Cup Finals in Madrid could be the next major tennis event to fall under the shadow of coronavirus, after an alarming increase of 849 deaths in
Spain in one day.
Great
Britain, the 2015 champions, qualified automatically for the second staging of the revamped competition in the Spanish capital in November by reaching the semi-finals there last autumn but notices on the Davis Cup website only add to the air of pessimism. “Due to the current global situation caused by the impact of Covid-19,” read a statement, “it is yet to be determined when tickets for the 2020 Finals will go on sale.”