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Today, at 17, she also wants to use the platform tennis gives her to advocate for justice on racial and social inequity.

Televised live sports have all but vanished in the age of coronavirus, but an unlikely exception emerged recently on ESPN3: the “2020 Platform Tennis World Championships.”

To avoid coming within six feet of each other, they played singles instead of doubles — the more customary platform tennis game.

Platform tennis — played outdoors, even in subzero temperatures, on a scaled-down tennis court inside fences that feel more like a cage — was a new entry in a strange and sensitive era for live competitions.

Platform tennis has had hardly any mainstream exposure, but last week it was the only live event on ESPN3 that was played on a physical court or a field.