There was one, now there are two!

 WTA Lexington and Prague

Last week in Palermo there were no hitches. Hooray! This week there are two! Yes! TWO! tournaments. Still just the WTA is in action. The guys have no balls. 

Girls are basically split between Europe and US and there are pretty strong signs that this split reflects their intentions regarding the two GSs that we will hopefully get this year: RG and USO.

The Top Seed Open presented by Bluegrass Orthopaedics, Lexington

Lexington - Horse Capital of the World. Who am I to disagree?

WTA International on HC. This is the start of the USO preparation. Fingers crossed it won't be in vain. Draw is, naturally, heavy on US players (13 in MD and maybe more after qualification). We get 8 seeds with no byes. Here they are (#9 to #39): Serena, Sabalenka, Konta, Anisimova, Putintseva, Linette, Stephens and Jabeur. Venus v Azarenka is really now a R1 match in a WTA International? Yes, yes it is. Who else is in? Watson, Davis, Bouzkova, Bellis, Gauff. Not shabby at all!

DRAW
DOUBLES DRAW
OOP

Jennifer Brady - 1st trophy and it's a very cool one!

Prague Open

Prague - Is this the Beer Capital of the World? Hmm... maybe after Plzen?

WTA International on clay. This is the start of the RG preparation. Yes, it's that kind of a year! Keeping the fingers crossed. Toes too. As you would expect, given the shit we're in, just one North American shows up: Bouchard. Draw has 8 seeds with no byes (#2 to #40): Halep, Martic, Mertens, Yastremska, Alexandrova, Pavlyuchenkova, Strycova and Kudermetova. Who else is in Prague? Surprisingly, not the best Czechs but the Romanian horde. Let's start with the home girls: Siniakova, Krejcikova, The Lesser Pliskova, Fruhvirtova. Now the horde: Țig, Begu, Bogdan and maybe some qualifiers. What's left? An assortment of more Europeans: Kasatkina, Hercog, Sevastova, Giorgi, Ferro, Siegemund. Good stuff.

DRAW
DOUBLES DRAW
OOP

Simona Halep - 21st trophy, a vase.

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.)