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What the World Wars Might Tell Us About Returning to Top Slam Form After a Long Hiatus From Play

What the World Wars Might Tell Us About Returning to Top Slam Form After a Long Hiatus From Play

There is no time in tennis history that compares to what tennis (or the world, for that matter) is going through right now. The World Wars were the only other time where multiple Majors were suspended for an extended period of time. In this post we look at the slam winners in the 10 years before and after World War I and II and consider what history might tell us about the difficulty of coming back from the public health war against COVID-19.