With mental health awareness months and weeks well underway in both the U.S. and UK, the ATP tour has taken commendable steps to ensure its pros aren't left to play mind games during the time of the COVID-19 crisis.

With partners Headspace and Sporting Chance, the ATP made for all-day, every-day resources available via what's termed a triage team of therapists. The intake team traffics callers to human and other resources, tailored to their need.

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Sporting Chance was founded by former footballer Tony Adams MBE, a recovering alcoholic and erstwhile Arsenal and England captain who identified a gap in athletes' needs and moved to fulfill it. Headspace, to its credit, serves 65 million users in a remarkable 190 countries.

It's a surefire victory for those who might be vulnerable in these trying times in various ways—be the situation a mental, physiological, spiritual, or related malady, seemingly temporary or long-term.