In a 2020 to forget, in ways, many are harking back to yesteryear. Given the shortfall of tennis in general this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a lot of fans and observers have turned to regarding outstanding matches and images from the past.
Among those visuals worth another look: a 2017 photo essay that appeared in Germany's Tennis magazine (no relation to this publication you're reading), which displays the quite-calloused hands of top ATP players. In this case, each picture certainly carries the value of thousand words.
The image set was captured by Juergen Hasenkopf: