A temporary field hospital is set to open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, Queens next week to help handle New York’s spike in COVID-19 cases.
“Their goal at Tennis Center is 350 hospital beds in the indoor training center and 25,000 meals being assembled in Louis Armstrong Stadium every day,” said Evert from Boca Raton, Florida, where she runs the Evert Tennis Academy. “It’s wonderful that we can use this big facility for something that’s bigger than tennis—bigger than any of us—and that the tennis community can contribute to something like this when New York is looking for any resource possible.
“The atmosphere and the spirit and the big heart of Flushing is still there in what’s happening now,” she says, “but the stakes are so much higher. This is about life and death now; this is much bigger than a tournament. Tennis has stepped up—the All-England Club at Wimbledon has offered their facility to the National Health Service, and it’s been a beautiful thing to witness it all. It makes me proud, as a player.
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