Grunting and Tennis
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Grunting and Tennis

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 8, 20262 min
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Grunting and Tennis

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Kyle, you play tennis, don't you?

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how grunting affects the game.

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Kyle, you play tennis, don't you? Maybe you can give me an insider's point of view on one of the controversies in tennis, how grunting affects the game. You're talking about how tennis players often grunt while hitting the ball, right?

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Right. I read that the sound can get up to 100 decibels, which is basically as loud as a motorbike. It's true. Some tennis players say it doesn't bother them, but others say the grunts distract them

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from hearing the ball hit the racket, which makes it harder to predict where the ball will land. A group of sports psychologists decided to test whether grunting really did have this effect.

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