Justin Gimelstob, Tennis Channel commentator and all-around classy guy, posted an eye-catching promo for today’s Australian Open mixed doubles final.
He quickly deleted the tweet from his Twitter account, but nothing goes away on the Internet!
His Tennis Channel looks a lot different than our Tennis Channel!
It is my understanding that in the future “grunting” will no longer be part of professional tennis. That”s a great relief if I live that long. However I would like to point out that two top women players who will remain exempt from this restriction (because they are “grandmothered” in) do not really grunt, they “whoop”. It is impossible for me to believe that this aggravating noise relieves stress in the whooper. More accurately, it induces stress in their opponent’ which I suspect is precisely the point. It is also a major aggravation for the audience, and like many fans watching on TV, I turn off the sound. Your commenters and commercials go unheard. Do your sponsors know that?