With tennis slowly returning returning to local courts, casual players in many areas of thankful and excited to "Get Out & Play."

Still, the necessary precautions—such as staying six feet away from others, serving with separate sets of balls for each player and taking breaks to wash your hands—can feel overwhelming at first. And they were perfectly parodied in this hilarious video by the Essential Tennis YouTube channel:

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The players in the video take sanitized and distanced tennis to a new extreme, with tactics such as disinfecting the ball mid-point...

WATCH: YouTubers hilariously parody "pandemic tennis"

Reinventing tennis attire...

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WATCH: YouTubers hilariously parody "pandemic tennis"

And even shaking hands at a distance:

WATCH: YouTubers hilariously parody "pandemic tennis"

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But these hurdles to a quality tennis experience aren't just limited to the average player, at least not for long.

With tour-level and exhibition events alike looking to make a return in these next few months, pros, organizers and spectators all face the challenge of figuring out whether and how to carry on during the COVID-19 pandemic.