{"id":12862,"date":"2018-01-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/tennis-boss-says-grunting-is-basically-cheating\/"},"modified":"2018-01-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T00:00:00","slug":"tennis-boss-says-grunting-is-basically-cheating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/tennis-boss-says-grunting-is-basically-cheating\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis Boss Says Grunting Is Basically Cheating"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Head of women\u2019s pro tennis in Australia has agreed that exaggerated on court grunting is essentially \u2018legalised cheating\u2019.<\/h3>\n<p>Nicole Pratt made the comments on 3AW after Aryna Sabalenka came under fire for her grunting during her loss to Ash Barty.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"400\" width=\"700\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" data-delta=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/aryna-sabalenka.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cThe player does rely on the sound of the ball coming off the racket,\u201d Pratt said.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cAnd probably more the issue is when players grunt or scream for an extended period of time because then that is impeding on your hitting time and hitting space.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cThere is a bit of an issue when it does get extended.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Belarusian teenager Aryna Sabalenka slammed for loud &#39;grunting&#39; during first-round <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AusOpen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AusOpen<\/a> clash against Ash Barty: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lWmIrmoSWv\">https:\/\/t.co\/lWmIrmoSWv<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/otYBliUFHu\">pic.twitter.com\/otYBliUFHu<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Herald Sun Sport (@heraldsunsport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/heraldsunsport\/status\/953226608231395328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 16, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head of women\u2019s pro tennis in Australia has agreed that exaggerated on court grunting is essentially \u2018legalised cheating\u2019. 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