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On Grunting

While I love Wimbledon’s traditionalism, the sport of Tennis does need to grow up a bit.

New Wimbledon roof sparks worries about loud grunts
Kathryn Blaze Carlson, National Post, Monday, June 22, 2009

A new retractable roof over Wimbledon’s Centre Court may stave off rain delays, but some fear it will wreak havoc of another sort: the amplification of tennis grunts which, even without the help of an echo-inducing medium, sound like epic battle cries.

Grunting, long a part of an otherwise prim and proper tournament, has only become controversial as of late, with 16-year-old Michelle Larcher de Brito facing accusations that her gutteral cries might actually be a strategic way of distracting her opponent.

Grunting isn’t a new controversy at all in tennis. It’s typically an involuntary reaction to athletic exertion, and the rules that discourage women from grunting while saying nothing about men are nothing less then sexist. Women’s professional tennis has been getting increasingly athletic over the years, and treating it any differently than the men’s game shows a lack of respect.

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