Little girls should neither be seen nor heard.
February 28th, 2008 9:36 am by Kelly GarbatoSo says the Mt. Carmel Tennis Club, in Sunbury, Australia:
9-year-old Lauryn Edwards has been banned from her tennis club for grunting. An opposing player complained about Edwards’s grunts, and she was then banned. Edwards looks up to Russian star player Maria Sharapova, whose grunts have caused controversy.
Edwards, who has been playing tennis since she was 4, said: “It feels natural to do my noise. I’m not faking it. It makes me play better. When I don’t do it, I don’t play my best tennis. And now people have told me I can’t play if I do it.”
The tennis club told her father, Duncan, that if he guaranteed she’d stop grunting, she would be allowed back on the court. His reply was, What do they want me to do? Put Band-Aids over her mouth? They made her cry on the court when they told her.”
To which I say:
Fucking wankers.
This kid is just the picture of awesomeness:
Love her!
Grunt on, Lauryn, grunt on.
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April 7th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
Don’t be sucked in by this. There is more too it, and her Parents used it to get Money by parading their child on the Television trying to make her out to be the poor little victim.
This child had been warned about noise repeatedly.
Dont be sucked in by the bleeding heart defence of Duncan & Ruth. They have exploited their Child for some cash.
Now that is setting a good example as a Parent!
April 8th, 2008 at 9:25 am
Yeah, arguing that a child should be allowed to grunt while playing a physically demanding sport – what a bleeding heart, I am. That’s just a pot-induced hippie bong dream on my part.