That’s Rafael Nadal, one of the loudest grunters in tennis But the real screamers are the women. Ah yes, Maria Sharapova, belting at 101 decibels, is the scream queen.
Yet curiously, she doesn’t utter a peep during practice.But does grunting distract an opponent? Ivan Lendl complained that Andre Agassi’s howls in the 1988 U.S. Open threw off his concentration and timing. And last year the International Tennis Federation began considering banning grunts. Well, maybe a study in the journal Public Library of Science ONE bolsters the case for a ban.
To read the full, original article click on this link: Tennis Players' Grunts May Slow Opponents' Reactions: Scientific American Podcast
Author: Christie Nicholson
