No games, no sets, no matches

US ace Serena Williams described herself as ‘‘shocked’’, while Scotsman Andy Murray was ‘‘very sad’’ at the axing.

The men’s ATP Tour and women’s WTA Tour are already suspended until at least June 7 but it looks extremely unlikely that any professional tennis will be possible throughout the northern hemisphere summer as the pandemic worsens in Europe and the US.

Shortly after the news came from Wimbledon, the US Tennis Association issued a statement saying it ‘‘still plans to host the US Open as scheduled,’’ from August 31 to September 13 in New York.

As of now, the French Open is set to begin six days after the men’s final at Flushing Meadows, where a facility housing indoor practice courts is now a temporary 350-bed hospital and Louis Armstrong Stadium is being used to prepare 25,000 meal packages per day for patients, workers, volunteers and schoolchildren in the city.

The decision by the All England Club means Novak Djokovic and Simona Halep will not get a chance to defend their Wimbledon titles from 2019.

‘‘We are going through something bigger than tennis and Wimbledon will be back!’’ Halep wrote on social media. ‘‘And it means I have even longer to look forward to defending my title.’’

Gymnastics star Simone Biles is trying to regroup after the Covid19 pandemic forced the 2020 Olympics to be pushed back to the summer of 2021.

There’s a large whiteboard calendar on a wall inside the massive gym owned by Simone Biles’ family that outlines every major gymnastics event of the year, the 2020 Olympics included.

When the Tokyo Games were postponed to the summer of 2021, one of the Olympic champion’s coaches ran over to the calendar and erased all of it.

Watching Cecile Landi wipe away all of Biles’ carefully laid plans left the 23-year-old American star reeling.

‘‘I didn’t really know what to feel. I just kind of sat there. I cried but ultimately it was the right decision. We need to make sure everyone in the US and around the world is healthy and safe. It was hard but it’s OK.’’

While many other high-profile athletes came forward in the aftermath of the postponement, Biles needed some time to collect herself and figure out a way forward.

‘‘It’s a letdown,’’ Biles said. ‘‘It’s hard to keep looking at that like, ‘We have another year’.’’

Probably, she said when asked if she is definitely planning to push toward Tokyo despite the delay, but she stopped short of an unqualified ‘‘yes’’.

‘‘Well, nothing is really set in stone yet,’’ Biles said. ‘‘We’re trying to figure out the right training regiment just so mentally and physically we can try and stay on top of our game. We’re just playing it by ear and really just listening to my body.’’

If the most decorated female gymnast of all time is being honest, she was looking forward to a break come mid-august.

She’d been doing a countdown of sorts in her mind since she returned to competition in 2018. Having to hit reset isn’t easy.

‘‘I was mentally battling my mind and I was so ready and not mentally checked out, but I was ready after three months to be done,’’ Biles said. ‘‘That’s a lot to take mentally.’’

For those who point out ‘‘it’s just another year,’’ she has a counterpoint: She’s spent most of her life in the gym since she was in school. The light at the end of the tunnel was growing bigger by the day. Now it’s not.

‘‘A year is a lot for elite athletes,’’ she said. ‘‘It feels more than a year on your body, trust me. Especially gymnastics, the impact we take. It’s your whole entire body, it’s not just your legs or your feet or your arms, we have to make sure your whole body is in check.’’

World Champions Centre, the Houstonarea gym her family runs, is closed, forcing her to come up with workouts that will keep her body engaged for whenever she’s cleared to return to training. She has no plans to try to slip