ATP: Men's tennis quiz - who's moaning there?
For the second time, ATP Media invited top professionals to an exciting quiz game - the current edition of "Guess the grunt" (in English: Guess the groaning) focuses on the players of the younger generation.
by Stefan Bergmann
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Apr 07, 2023, 03:26 pm

It often causes more attention and discussion among women than among men, but it's not uncommon on the ATP tour either: groaning with every stroke movement. In the meantime, there are actually only a handful of professionals who do not emit an acoustic warning signal on serve, forehand, backhand or smash - however, interpretation and volume vary enormously from player to player.
The media department of the players' association took advantage of this fact by inviting half a dozen younger athletes to an interesting quiz game - Sebastian Baez, Jenson Brooksby, Sebastian Korda, Jiri Lehecka, Holger Rune and Denis Shapovalov - just had to armed with wireless headphones - assign the verbal noises to their respective originators. Definitely not an easy task.
To be honest: the editorial team was sometimes overwhelmed with the unorthodox task. Therefore all the more respect for Peter Korda's son, who only missed the full number of points by a hair's breadth.
ATP Media had already organized the first round of the entertaining competition in 2019. This issue has now also been published in all its glory on YouTube: