Roger Federer and the players' Whatsapp group, between Covid-19 and memes

Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and the Whatsapp group of players: between Covid-19, canceled tournaments and memes. In such a particular and chaotic moment like the one that tennis is going through now, where all the tournaments of the next six weeks have been canceled or postponed to a date to be destined, the opinions and comments of players become fundamental to understand what will be the news on the season in progress.

For this reason, many of the top-100 players keep in touch with each other through a common WhatsApp group, and other chats to discuss the decisions made by the ATP. Men's tennis has a players council chaired by Novak Djokovic and which also includes Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, appointed to replace Robin Haase, Jamie Murray and Sergiy Stakhovsky after their resignations.

In recent weeks, the use of WhatsApp group, in which there are a large part of the most important tennis players, including the Big Three, became essential to communicate news, information and send comments, as well as to joke and spend the mandatory quarantine that many players are respecting in their countries in a different way.

Last week, for example, they talked about the opportunity to suspend the Miami Open due to Coronavirus once Indian Wells was postponed for the same reason. The Council had proposed to stop the tournaments and turned the proposal to the ATP Board, which last Thursday approved an extraordinary rule with which they suspended competitions for six weeks.

Diego Schwartzman said that "Djokovic speaks a lot in the group and sometimes memes are sent about the coronavirus to play down a little." In the meantime, after the postponement of the Roland Garros, moved to the end of September 2020, pessimism is growing over the next tournaments that will have to be played between May, June and July, including Wimbledon.

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