The world of sport is a quiet place right now, as competitions spanning all disciplines across the globe have slammed shut their doors amid the growing pandemic. It is, however, not the first time.

Shoppers up and down the country have been stocking up on toilet paper, leading to fears of a shortage which could force customers to use kitchen roll or other substitutes.

Roland Garros, where the workforce on its new building projects downed tools earlier today, will shift from its expected start of May 24 and begin instead on September 20,

A glittering summer of sport is set to be wiped out by the impact of coronavirus - with social restrictions imposed earlier this week set to be in place for the next six months.

No sooner had Roland Garros lobbed a hand grenade into this year's tennis calendar than All England Club was adopting a Keep Calm And Carry On stance on whether to go ahead.

MIKE DICKSON: Holed up in her London flat, the usually globetrotting Jo Konta is clinging to the distant hope that Wimbledon might be saved from the cull of major summer sporting events.

The likelihood of Wimbledon being called off for this year was ramped up on Wednesday night after the All England Club revealed it was calling an emergency board meeting next week.

FA bosses are ready to offer the use of Wembley Stadium in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

The tournament will be cancelled for the first time since the Second World War, with options such as playing the event behind closed doors and postponement not viewed as feasible.

We've already seen coronavirus decimate the sporting calendar, with Euro 2020 and the Tokyo Olympics among dozens of events either postponed or cancelled. So what will be the next event to fall?

The coronavirus pandemic spreading across the globe has put paid to many sporting events, and The Championships are the next to fall, with the UK death toll currently standing at 2,352.

The R&A moved swiftly on Thursday to knock down a report from America that the Open would suffer the same fate as Wimbledon and be cancelled.

The All England Club's insurance policy, in the region of £1.5m-a-year, was updated in 2003 after organisers asked for a virus-related clause inserted following concerns over the SARS outbreak.

According to UK-based expert Helena Mead at Christy England, who supply the towels to Wimbledon and the Royal family, people should be washing their bedding every week.

Kate Middleton, 38, looked patriotic in the £250 elegant scarlet Cayla gown by British brand LK Bennett, which she first wore to the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in 2015.

Next month Asda will eliminate single-use carrier bags from its online operations, becoming the first UK supermarket to do so. The move will save 85 million plastic bags every year.

Tesco hopes to remove 250 million bags a year with the new initiative, while Iceland has already removed over 1,500 tonnes of plastic in its packaging since 2018.

The radio host posted the video of the dangerous stunt on Twitter, showing a youth weaving through slow moving traffic on his back wheel on busy Cromwell Road in Kensington, West London.

Liam Didsbury from Liverpool, has blasted Asda for allegedly advising employees who don't agree with their new contract to find a new job. His mum has worked for them for 30 years.

An anonymous man, from the UK, shared a photo of the ASOS sleeveless jacket with neon trim alongside the caption: 'Loving the ASOS Asda range.'

Asda's Deep Pan Meat Feast shrunk from 390g to 349g while its cost went up. It's BBQ Chicken Pizza went from 390g to 352g while the price remained the same.

Stockpiling of household goods means that many aisles in Tesco, Sainsbury's, Morrisons, Asda, Lidl and Aldi up and down the UK are looking increasingly desolate.

Shops including Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's, Morrisons and Waitrose are looking increasingly desolate as people begin stockpiling household goods.

Pictures from one Asda store in London showed aisles that had been stripped of toilet roll after the Department of Health and Social Care this afternoon confirmed there were 273 positive cases.

Mark Mattocks shared a video of a woman dressed as a Star Wars soldier, pictured, at his local store in Sittingbourne, Kent - which has now been viewed more than 1.3 million times.

The nation's supermarkets will now be allowed to help each other keep their shelves stocked as the government has temporarily relaxed competition laws.

Tesco and Sainsbury's are limiting customers to only buying three or any grocery item, while Asda and Morrisons are restricting purchases across 1,250 regularly-bought lines.

Shoppers were pictured squeezing together at supermarkets up and down the country this morning, ignoring social distancing rules from the government amid the coronavirus outbreak.

Sainsbury's, Tesco, Morrisons and Asda have all been allocating special shopping hours for people who are vulnerable of catching coronavirus or those buying supplies on their behalf.

The Daily Mail's Guy Adams reviews the state of the food industry in light of the panic buying which severely impacted markets and the cost benefit of farming. Meat, dairy and fruit has been affected.

A man was wrestled to the ground at the Asda Superstore in Greenhithe, Kent after he allegedly coughed on staff and said he had coronavirus. Police arrested him on April 7 and he has been charged.

The supermarkets chains are asking shoppers to only touch what they plan to buy or use in 'no touch' policy aimed at limiting the spread of coronavirus and protecting staff and customers.

Cabin crew member Sara, who lives in Brighton, is used to flying across the world but is now stacking chilled food at the store in Lancing, West Sussex after being furloughed by the struggling airline.

The IHS Markit UK Household Finance Index, which measures households' perceptions of their financial wellbeing, plummeted to a reading of 34.9 in April from 42.5 in March.

Sir Vince Cable, who led the privatisation of Royal Mail in 2013, said a reduction to executive pay was the socially-responsible thing to do after bosses axed the dividend last month.

Unprecedented is a word that can often be badly used but it is appropriate when it comes to the current conditions in the oil market.

The former state monopoly decided to cancel its final payout to investors last month, to help bolster the balance sheet.

Online supermarket Ocado removed 11,087 promotions and hiked the base price of 918 products between March 4 and April 8. Founder and chief exec Tim Steiner's stake is worth some £480m

In a lawsuit filed in the US yesterday, private equity group Sycamore said L Brands had failed to adhere to a 'detailed set of obligations' associated with the takeover.

The Hiscox Action Group, representing more than 180 firms says the insurer has issued 'blanket' rejections, knocking back thousands of legitimate claims.

Councils have handed out £6.1bn, almost half the £12.3bn they received from Government this month. Grants of up to £25,000 have been received by 491,725 small businesses

Gamesys was praised for acknowledging that children and vulnerable customers who are bored are being placed at risk by the lockdown. Betting companies have been urged to protect players.

While 38,186 firms have applied for a Government-backed loan through the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loans Scheme, just 16,624 have been approved by High Street banks.

Chief exec Alan Jope said he expects the pandemic to prompt lasting changes in behaviour, with strong demand for cleaning products set to continue while the dining industry could face a slow recovery.

Standard Life Aberdeen Chief exec Keith Skeoch has come to the view that attending next January would be insensitive to the grim realities of life in the pandemic for millions of ordinary people.

From the market low on 18 March to the start of the Easter weekend on 9 April, junior market-listed firms announced over £500million of funding.

The education group will hand back £102m to shareholders - or 13.5p per share - after boss John Fallon insisted the company was in a 'strong financial position'.

Sales at the US lingerie business have suffered as shoppers shy away from the brand, which is embodied by the scantily clad models who perform in its annual show.

The British fashion stalwart said a third of its workers would remain at home on full pay, without a penny being billed to the taxpayer, while bosses have taken a 20 per cent pay cut.

McLaren, based at a plush factory in Surrey designed by renowned British architect Norman Foster, is also talking to third parties about further boosting its working capital.