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WTA Players Still Griping About Grunting

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Given all of the issues plaguing modern sports -- steroids, labor unrest, sex scandals, seedy tattoo parlors in Columbus, Ohio -- kudos to Douglas Robson of USA Today for tackling one of the most important:

↵↵Even at night, Jelena Jankovic can’t exorcise the echoing shrieks.

↵“After the match, you go home and you sleep and you still hear that grunting in your mind,” says the former No. 1 from Serbia of the excessive noise that continues to vex the women’s game.

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