WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. – Tennys Sandgren celebrated a game-clinching point in pandemic-appropriate fashion, retrieving the ball himself in the absence of ball kids, and exchanging an awkward fist-to-elbow bump with a teammate as the World TeamTennis season started before mask-wearing fans on Sunday.WTT’s nine teams have come together The Greenbrier resort in West Virginia for their three-week season.
Matches normally are played at various sites around the country but everyone was brought to one location because of the coronavirus pandemic.Sandgren, for one, was happy to be at The Greenbrier, and not just for the tennis.“You know what it's been like the last four months," he said.