The attempt to start a La-Ola, would probably catch more of a futile undertaking. The stands are a little too sparse on this corpus Christi holiday in Neuss. Especially the fact that some spectators sitting in the stands, but it is already there. In the meanwhile, the third round of the new tournament series of the German Tennis Federation (DTB) is added to a new Chapter in the handling of the sport with Corona. In a place where once the later Grand Slam winner Stanislas Wawrinka, Gustavo Kuerten, and even a young Rafael Nadal for the TC Blue-White in the Tennis League started. It is a Chapter with a piece of content that is likely of interest to many other sports to professional football.
Pirmin Clossé
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“We have the feeling that we are a bit like pioneers,” says Ulrich Klaus, the President of the DTB. He has arrived this Thursday to make an image of this in Corona-times of the special Event. Planned the preliminary round, the Association, like the entire series, which is discharged to the middle of July at various locations had been, even without an audience. Because the competent health Department allowed, however, in the short term, up to 100 spectators, was the tournament week in Neuss, one of the first professional sports events in Germany, in which a crowd allowed. At the beginning of may, the sport of tennis with a “spirit tournament” in Rhineland-Palatinate, Höhr had held-Grenzhausen competitions one of the world’s first professional Sports since the outbreak of the pandemic. Now he goes for the step return of the audience to advance ways. “We take on this role,” says Klaus.
pandemic more ubiquitous
the mood at The plant in Neuss, Germany, is still reserved a bit. The hazy drizzle, the weather contributes for sure, the shapes of the third day of the tournament. In addition, the pandemic is, of course, in the case of the return of the audience more ubiquitous. Already at the entrance each visitor gets the Corona-a rule of conduct pressed in the Hand. Wear protective mask, keep your distance, wash your hands don’t forget. Routine by now. For this purpose, each may use only his assigned place, in order to the ranks, no one comes too close. The organizer has not developed a logistically quite complex System, which is also a mess, when families or couples – for the the distance requirement does not apply, of course – want to sit together.
in General, the organizational effort was due to the different rules immensely, says Bernhard Rüsing, managing Director of the TC Blue-White. “It is an Experiment, is new territory for all of us,” he says. So you have had ultimately to do as much as they usually do in an entire Bundesliga season. Financially, the multi-time German team champion in hopes of Blue-and-White, which is also discharging an intermediate round of the DTB series, ultimately, just a black Zero. The non-changing extra income hoped for from the audience-revenue nothing. It is, rather, went about bringing the sport of tennis in Neuss, again a platform, which seems to be of great media interest managed to do just that. And after all: After the first tournament only a little over 50 viewers days on the plant arrived, it was sold out, the Ticket quota for the holiday fast.
As in the early afternoon with the world-ranked 34. Jan-Lennard Struff without a doubt, the most prominent participants of the tournament, the space enters, filled the grandstands actually good. So well filled, as, in these particular circumstances. It is a cautious approach to the return to normality.
