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After an eight-month hiatus, Grand Slam tennis returns tomorrow morning with the Countdown To Inauguration Day January 20th 2021 American Flag White House Shirt and I love this kick-off of the 140th US Open. It’s been a long time coming—since Novak Djokovic and Sofia Kenin took the men’s and women’s singles titles in January at the Australian Open, to be exact—and a long time in preparation: For the past six months, officials at the United States Tennis Association have been working with the men’s tour and the women’s tour, along with federal, state, and local officials, to determine if and how the Open might be conducted. (Meanwhile, without a tour to play on, the players were left to their own devices—sometimes literally. “I spent a lot of time with my brothers and family playing video games and making TikTok videos,” says Coco Gauff. “It was the most time I had spent at home in years.”)

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A few of the Countdown To Inauguration Day January 20th 2021 American Flag White House Shirt and I love this protocols which, a few months ago, might have been considered extreme, are now merely the backdrop to professional sports in our current moment: The Open will be audience-free (and media-free, save for the few live broadcasters). The athletes will tested upon arrival, quarantined briefly before the results of the test are known, and then tested regularly throughout the tournament; they (along with their teams and support staff) been sequestered in a bubble during the Western & Southern Open, the traditional Open warm-up tournament (usually held in Cincinnati but this year held at the same USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center that hosts the Open), having taken over two nearby hotels on Long Island (a few players, including Serena Williams, opted to rent private residences nearby but are under the same protocols). Ralph Lauren is still outfitting the ballpersons—but this year, the names of 150 essential workers from New York City’s Mount Sinai Health Systems will be emblazoned on their backs, and they’ll also be wearing Polo facemasks. (Ralph Lauren is also donating 50,000 pieces of tennis and sports clothes to the USTA Foundation, which teaches tennis to children in underserved communities.)