tennis screeching - any solutions?
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On the assumption that zero people enjoy female tennis players screeching, thus providing a popular mandate to stop it, why is the LTA doing nothing to outlaw it? When Sharapova admitted in an interview that it was pure gamesmanship, how come she didn't get clobbered for that? Azarenka's not much better. Interestingly when she's playing a shot under pressure she forgets to do it. None of them do it when they're practising. It's an American tennis school thing that needs banning right now.
My solution is to find where the offenders live and set up a loudspeaker outside their houses playing their own screeches back at them all night on a constant loop.
My solution is to find where the offenders live and set up a loudspeaker outside their houses playing their own screeches back at them all night on a constant loop.
ks. I believe it's generally known that I find it boring beyond belief.
Broadening the topic slightly, and this could lead to a possible solution, why is tennis one of those rare sports (offhand I can only think of one more, golf) where the crowd is expected to stay silent during play? Actually, tennis is even barmier than golf because silence is apparently only expected for the serve. Once the noise starts in a rally it's a case of anything goes.
Tennis players demand silence for the serve (again, why is that?), and then get some more silence until the rally gets exciting. To deal with those players who don't feel obliged to reciprocate with some respectful hush from their end while their opponents are preparing to make a shot, my new solution is to encourage the crowd to make as much noise as they like, whenever they like, including on the serve. As the server goes through the windup the crowd could do that noise they make when they're watching the Hawkeye replay, or when a goalie is running up to take a goalkick.
I play tennis, albeit at a rubbish level, and I don't give a monkeys what noise is going on when I'm serving. Maybe I need to demand a bit more quiet from the kids in the skate park when I'm winding up for a monster serve. I wonder whether Sharapova would see the irony in her demanding a bit of hush from the crowd in this new unrestricted environment.
Tennis players demand silence for the serve (again, why is that?), and then get some more silence until the rally gets exciting. To deal with those players who don't feel obliged to reciprocate with some respectful hush from their end while their opponents are preparing to make a shot, my new solution is to encourage the crowd to make as much noise as they like, whenever they like, including on the serve. As the server goes through the windup the crowd could do that noise they make when they're watching the Hawkeye replay, or when a goalie is running up to take a goalkick.
I play tennis, albeit at a rubbish level, and I don't give a monkeys what noise is going on when I'm serving. Maybe I need to demand a bit more quiet from the kids in the skate park when I'm winding up for a monster serve. I wonder whether Sharapova would see the irony in her demanding a bit of hush from the crowd in this new unrestricted environment.
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