Around the world the playgrounds are closed off, the playing fields empty.
Tennis nets have been taken down. Basketball courts locked. Youth sports have ceased to operate. Even recess at school is over, since there isn’t any school.
For Billie Jean King, this is a nightmare. The tennis icon understands the need to fight the coronavirus and is fully supportive of shelter-in-place orders. Yet for someone who spent her life pioneering and then promoting female participation in sports — at all levels — the idea of non-active girls threatens to bring a whole new host of problems.