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Tennis Season: Fall or Spring?

We are just about exactly 5 months out from when this pandemic took control of all of our lives around the world. In the sports world, specifically the college sports world, we sit roughly at the same spot as we did in late March. No (now little) college sports. The NBA has shown us promising results by being in the Orlando bubble and having a lot of success as the playoffs are about to begin. The MLB has been quite the opposite and is showing us that traveling comes with consequences. In just a few weeks, the US Open is expected to start. This will be a great opportunity for our sport to show (or not show) how well things can work and proceed with more play. Enough rambling on, this article is to discuss Iowa High School Tennis and the pros and cons of having the season in the spring vs having the season in the fall. I am not writing this to take a firm stance on which part of the year the tennis seasons should be played, but rather to open up a discussion on some of the good and bad