There were none and now there's one!

WTA Palermo

Holy crap! No title strikethrough! Amazing!

So here we go again. Fingers crossed nothing bad happens and this goes well and we get everything running safely and smoothly.

31st Palermo Ladies Open

Picturesque, right?

WTA is the first to get the ball rolling again and it's doing it in Palermo, Sicily, with a WTA International on clay. This started with a very strong draw but gradually the top players got cold feet because of the shit and withdrew. We still have a strong draw for the 1st official tournament in almost six months.

The seeds go from #15 to #27: Martic, Vondrousova, Sakkari, Kontaveit, Mertens, Vekic, Yastremska, Alexandrova. Pretty good! Who else is there? AVU, Kasatkina, Begu, Mladenovic, Cirstea, The Lesser Pliskova and Giorgi.

DRAW
DOUBLES DRAW
OOP

Fiona Ferro - Right now she can't lose at all.

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.)