Paes on Monday touched upon various topics including his junior days, transition to men's circuit, the role mental fitness plays in tennis, dealing with pressure, nutritional knowledge and coaching tips.
The guidelines include arriving at a venue already dressed and leaving immediately after the conclusion of a match, no handshake, no sharing of equipments (rackets, towels, water bottles, etc), no doubles matches.
Indian tennis star Sania Mirza urged the citizens to donate for the less fortunate as the nationwide lockdown was further extended by two weeks on Friday.
Just three men were involved in each contest for what will be a four-day event at an academy near the small town of Höhr-Grenzhausen: two players, who sat on opposite sides of the indoor clay court, and a chair umpire.
Bertens defeated Angelique Kerber, Donna Vekic and Eugenie Bouchard by identical 3-0 scores in round-robin play, before beating Belinda Bencic in the quarterfinals 6-4, and Caroline Wozniacki in the semifinals 7-5.
Tennis stars like Serena Williams, Maria Sharapova, Naomi Osaka, Kei Nishikori and others will participate in a virtual charity tennis tournament to raise funds for the fight against coronavirus pandemic.
Sania is the nominee for the award from the Asia/Oceania Zone along with Indonesia's Priska Madelyn Nugroho, the tournament announced.
Stefanos Tsitsipas served a brutal birthday prank for his once-doubles teammate Nick Kyrgios, leaking his phone number on Instagram.
That bit of silliness from Day 1 at the controller-instead-of-racket Madrid Open came 24 hours after another pro, Gael Monfils, really did withdraw because of ties to a streaming service not involved in this virtual venture.
Nadal also said that the world has been facing a very tough time since last few months.
Murray is making the most of the extended lockdown of tennis to return from his injury.
ATP, WTA, ITF, and the organizers of the four Grand Slams have all come together to financially support the lower-ranked players amid the coronavirus pandemic. In fact, world no.1 Djokovic even had a conversation with Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer
The new date for the tournament was initially set as September 20 but a report states that this could be pushed back to September 27.
Wawrinka's victory made him the first man apart from his legendary compatriot Roger Federer, Britain's Andy Murray, Djokovic and Nadal to win a Grand Slam title since Juan Martin Del Potro won the US Open in 2009.
The US Tennis Association has issued guidelines to the players participating in doubles events.
The 20-time Grand Slam champion began a string of posts on Twitter by saying the shutdown of tennis because of the coronavirus outbreak has given the sport an ideal opportunity to assess its future.
The ATP and WTA say they are in discussions with the International Tennis Federation and the four Grand Slam tournaments but did not provide any specifics about how much money they are pooling or how it will be distributed.
Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic said that he may consider his anti-vaccination stand after he created an uproar in social media saying he is against taking anti-coronavirus vaccination.
Rafael Nadal went live on Instagram with Roger Federer and Andy Murray and the duo trolled the Spain tennis star for his struggles with technology.
Roddick, who is regarded as one of the finest servers of the game, stated that Federer's serve is a combination of former greats Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi.
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