Guidance issued to clubs in time for Wednesday restart‘Mayhem’ as golfers and
Tennis players clamour to returnInitial your own balls before stepping on to court. Use hand sanitiser but avoid handshakes before the action begins. And don’t, on any account, touch your opponent’s balls with your hands – but rather use your racquet or foot to flick the ball back to the other side of the net.
These are just some of the guidelines that tennis players will be expected to follow when courts are reopened in
England on Wednesday. The LTA,
British tennis’s governing body, said it had contacted nearly 10,000 clubs, coaches and venues with its updated advice on how to resume safely – with many confirming they intend to open where feasible to capitalise on the demand for exercise and the forecast settled weather.