Quote (JADENAG @ Jul 8 2012 11:48am)
How much of a distraction the crowd is just depends on what sport you're talking about.
In any sport anything that's distracting to the player has to be taken care off. In sports like cricket and football the crowd is at a reasonable distance from the players. And even otherwise. You're forgetting, Tennis is the gentlemen's game. There's a lot of discipline in Tennis. You wont see a player yelling or arguing with the ref like t hey do in basketball or soccer etc. If you cant respect the game for what it is, you really have no right to comment about it.
I have every right to comment on anything I want, firstly.
tennis players argue with the ref all the time. But I don't see why that's even relevant. They are no closer distance from the crowd than basketball players are, for example.
Watching a long tennis rally would be more entertaining with the crowd going bananas. It's just some dumb English tradition that it's not "gentlemanlike" to speak out of turn or whatever...