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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
last edit: Apr 07, 2023, 03:26 pm

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Gael Monfils is also known for his idiosyncratic moaning on the pitch

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:

by Stefan Bergmann

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Apr 07, 2023, 04:25 pm
last edit: Apr 07, 2023, 03:26 pm