As the Australian Open reaches its climax, tennis players are looking ahead to another year of uncertainty and insecurity

It’s unlikely your average pro tennis player spends much time pondering the lyrics of Dame Vera Lynn — unless they get particularly bored during two weeks of hotel quarantine — but she did inadvertently sum up life on the tennis circuit during the pandemic.

We’ll meet again. Don’t know where, don’t know when.

For most of the past two weeks, the world’s best tennis players have enjoyed the luxury of playing in stadiums at least half full of people at the Australian Open in Melbourne, but come Monday they’ll return to empty stadiums, reduced prize money and another year of uncertainty and insecurity.

Most of the players have already moved on to different tournaments in different countries, with different COVID-19 protocols, but with no…