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Manitoba Open, other tennis events cancelled due to COVID-19 concerns

While golf has been able to take full advantage of being one of the first sports to reopen, and competitive tournaments have run throughout the summer without a hitch, the same can't be said for tennis

Despite being one of first sports to reopen, prospect of bringing in players for tournaments deemed too risky

Winnipeg Free Press ·
David Scrapneck is the president of the Kildonan Tennis Club, a main host of the Manitoba Open for nearly 30 years. It's the premier tennis event in the province, but Scrapneck said unlike golf, there's no way to have so many people at a facility and follow all safety protocols. (Ruth Bonneville/Winnipeg Free Press)

Tennis was the envy of the local sports scene back in early May.

After weeks of being told to hibernate, Manitobans were allowed to enjoy tennis as local courts, in addition to golf courses, were among the few sporting locales given the green light in the provincial government's first phase of a reopening plan. The reasoning was that tennis and golf are sports in which physical distancing rules can be easily followed.

Most other sports had no clear timetable to return.

While golf has been able to take full advantage and run competitive tournaments throughout the summer without a hitch, the same can't be said for tennis.

Tennis Manitoba has had to scratch nearly a dozen events off the calendar this summer, with the biggest one being the Manitoba Open, which was originally scheduled to start this week at Kildonan Tennis Club.

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