Wimbledon 2020: Anyone still for tennis? – The Yorkshire Post says

Yet, while the nation’s stress levels will be greatly reduced without the Murray melodrama that has become Wimbledon’s staple diet, along with strawberries and cream, the championship has become another casualty of Covid-19.

As events from Glastonbury to Armed Forces Day, and The Open golf, are cancelled, the sporting and cultural summer is already very different, and with good reason, as the country continues to battle to suppress the virus.

And while the BBC prepares to show a golden match from the past each afternoon and a highlights show each evening – some traditions do remain – it is, nevertheless, a reminder of tennis’s extraordinary capacity to enthrall in good times and bad.

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