Early start for tennis? Vice Chancellor Werner Kogler gives hope to hobby players
According to Sports Minister Werner Kogler, normality should gradually return to sports as soon as possible. Tennis and golf could start earlier.
by ÖTV / red
last edit: Apr 02, 2020, 11:16 am
According to Minister of Sport Werner Kogler, it could be a model “that those sports in which the known standards are easier to meet will start. Outdoor sports earlier than indoor sports, individual sports earlier than team sports. ”It had to be checked“ whether the first sports facilities would be used if the disciplines practiced there did not require physical contact - tennis or golf, for example ”.
Kogler does not currently dare to predict when it will be possible to start training or playing again in the first sports. In any case, that would "certainly not happen before the shops open".
Dirk Hordorff, Vice President of the German Tennis Federation, had expressed a similar hope in the tennisnet podcast "Quiet, please": After all, tennis was predestined to maintain the desired distance behavior of the individual participants.
You can listen to the podcast here:
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