50 Parting Thoughts From the 2021 Australian Open

Out of the 14-day soft tennis quarantine, we are cleaning out the notebook and notes app. Here are 50 Thoughts from the 2021 Australian Open. First, we did this last major and it got a lot of response. So we’ll offer again: if you want The Mailbag newsletter style, sent every Wednesday as an email, let me know.

• You thought Novak Djokovic was flexible? How about the contortions pulled off by Tennis Australia required simply to hold this event. And by the rest of the community to adjust accordingly? Hard and soft quarantines. Nasal swaps for all. Crowds and no crowds and crowds again. No linespeople. Simultaneous tournaments. Tennis players are creatures of habit and routine; yet there were…