Evert: Shrieks distract from matches


	Evert: Shrieks distract from matches

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7-5-2009 8:02 AM

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joined the chorus of complaints about the noise level in
women's tennis, saying the "grunting" was getting out of hand.</P><P>Evert stopped short of joining former rival Martina
Navratilova in labelling the practice as cheating, but agreed
it had reached unacceptable levels.</P><P></P><DIV class="mod-inline headshot floatright">
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</DIV><P>"Grunting is one thing but the shrill sound that you hear
with players nowadays, and especially they get louder when they
hit a winner, that's the thing that I observe as a player," the
former world No. 1 told reporters in Sydney on Monday.</P><P>"It comes before they hit the shot. That's the first thing
you hear and you are kind of like thrown off guard as a player
and then before you know the ball gets past you."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/tennis/news/story?id=4293867"><P>"The next time you watch say a <A href="http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/tennis/players/profile?playerId=399">Maria Sharapova</A> -- the
grunting is consistent but all of a sudden when she has a set
up to hit a winner.</P><P>"I don't understand, they say you've got to blow air out
when you hit the ball.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7E98C782-7ED5-4409-A884-F13A65C74230/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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