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 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 COVID-19 pandemic.
"You know what it's been like the last four months," he said. "You've been sitting in your house the whole damn time.