For a sportsperson, any sportsperson, the sound of the crowd is the first and possibly the least adulterated feedback. The sound, fury and joy of the crowds will be missed—by those playing, and those of us watching on TV. Here’s one reporter’s experience at a tennis tournament in Delhi: “Match after match one could hear the exhausted players’ heavy breathing. Tennis is anyway a sport played in silence. Even on TV, the sound of the clattering stumps echoed louder than the Akhtar yorkers that had castled Tendulkar and Dravid earlier.

Source: Hindustan Times May 31, 2020 02:51 UTC