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By Giri Nathan
[vc_empty_space height="15px"]In the early days of a pandemic it is hard to peer around the corner—to know what lies ahead even two weeks from now, let alone three months. This is as true of grocery-store runs as it is of professional sports, which would be a welcome diversion right now but are not, for many good reasons, possible to play. This is not the time to congregate tens of thousands of people in the same place for a week or two. So the ATP and WTA, in a rare but welcome bilateral move—how about more of those?—have both wiped their slates clean until June 7. That would have been the final day of the French Open, so that’s gone. Points and rankings will be frozen on both tours. Players are getting creative to stay fit in quarantine, using towels and bottles of detergent where needed. Everyone and everything is on ice, cautiously waiting to see what happens.