Ah shoot......the screamer is back for the US Open tennis tournament.

[a kennedy]

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/tennis/2017/08/15/us-open-maria-sharapova-gets-wild-card-into-main-draw/568622001/

Oh well, with her not playing all season, hopefully she'll be rusty.

[CincyDem]

1. Sitting in Cincy watching Isner/Paul appreciating...

...the quiet vs the women's matches. For whatever reason, noisy tennis has become more en vogue on the WTA.

Speaking of the women, Halep beat Townsend but it was a lot closer than the score would imply. Townsend has potential.

[a kennedy]

2. Yah yah, lotsa young Americans are coming up.

Christina McHale is one of my favorites, hope she can continue to grow into a great player.

[CincyDem]

3. Agree. She looked good against Martic

The other player I liked was Lepchenko. She was Dow 5-1 in the first and pulled out a win in two sets to get out of the qualifiers. Focused.

With all the top guys out this year we are seeing more depth and a lot of that is US talent.

[southerncrone]

4. I no longer watch women's tennis because of this.

Monica Seles is responsible for this annoying habit that so many female players adopted over the years. I hope she is forced to listen to that 24/7/365 in the afterlife.

There was a push a few years ago to ban players from the screaming. Was so happy at the prospect of not having to listen to this crap anymore. I never heard what happened to that. Anyone know?

[a kennedy]

5. Haven't heard what has happened to that either........

and the other one that is horrible is the new momma, Victoria Azarenka. She's got the double sound thing going......I just mute the sound when she is playing. Ugh.

[joeybee12]

6. Azarenka is worse than Screamapova

There was some rule passed about sound levels of grunting but it won't go into effect for five years I think, so we'll have to have the remote and mute button handy

[a kennedy]

8. Feel terrible for Azarenka, she might not be at the U S Open......

Having custody problems with her X boyfriend.......she can't bring her baby with her if she does......baby can't leave California via a judge.

[joeybee12]

9. I saw a headline about that

Didn't read the story. She gave birth recently and it's too bad there's custody issues already.

[Iggo]

7. The screaming and grunting doesn't bother me.

And I'm gonna add "anymore" to that, because I probably had something to say about it back when Seles and Capriati were going at it. Now I just think it's funny.