Tennis tournaments have been suspended owing to the pandemic. India’s pros are now looking at months without an income Tennis players like to live in a bubble.
Travel, practise, train, play, repeat. Though the tour takes them from the most famous and vibrant cities to obscure ones, very little filters in as their line of work demands absolute focus.
But Indian player Sidharth Rawat recalls the anxiety he felt in early March—for tennis was the last thing on the minds of the players competing at the ATP Challenger event in Potchefstroom, South Africa, which began on 9 March. “It was very chaotic.
No one was really able to focus on the tournament there," says the 26-year-old. “There were many players from Europe who were not sure whether they