Post Grass Blues

ATP Hamburg, Bastad, Newport; WTA Bucharest, Lausanne

It's the weird clay mini season that pops-up after grass for some unknown reason. The men have an ATP 500 in Hamburg and two ATP 250 in Bastad and Newport. Newport is on grass, the other two on clay. The women are 100% clay and at WTA International level, in Bucharest and Lausanne.

But of course no one is anywhere near those places. Because of the funniest virus ever. It will go away. Summer weakens it, it will disappear.

There are various exhos all over the place. Tennis played with all kinds of rules, maybe sometimes it's even real tennis! Some it's on TV! For some! Oh well...

Here are last year's winners of the week:

Nikoloz Basilashvili - European Open, Hamburg, ATP 500

Nicolas Jarry - Nordea Open, Bastad, ATP 250

John Isner - Hall of Fame Open, Newport, ATP 250

Elena Rybakina - BRD Bucharest Open, WTA International

Fiona Ferro - Ladies Open, Lausanne, WTA International

And the unfortunate coda again:

• Live and up to date stats about coronavirus

• Another site with up to date stats

• Daily youtube update with the scientific side of the fight against covid-19 , explained in pretty intelligible terms. (That links to a playlist, just click on the freshest clip. Or you know... get really into it from the beginning.)