Hindrance

She did.
I cannot stand any of it and think it should be completely banned.

She did, was that Lisicki had right to complain.

They're looking at addressing it at the moment.

From what I gather, what they are going to do is instruct tennis schools and academies not to raise screaming players since it won't be tolereated from xx year, but won't do anything about hte current generation.

Azarenka is a great player and potentially could be a Great player.
Watching that semi final the absurdity of the shriek was really brought home since she was on the back foot most of the time, frequently shanking blocked returns. You'd hear her start a shriek as the contacted with the ball: at exactly that moment the miss hit was evident, but since she'd committed to a shriek she'd have to follow through with it. It just looked ridiculous, shrieking on a desperate, full-stretch, framed block return, the point lost, the ball netted, but the shriek trailing on.

It absolutely must be a hindrance: it's supposed to be a sort of psychological device which the player uses to persuade themselves to hit all out, but that only makes sense with regard to certain shots and certain moments in the point; when other sorts of shots need to be player the shriek can only distract since it's expressing something incompatible with the shot. A waste of energy and a ridiculous spectacle.

"it's supposed to be a sort of psychological device which the player uses to persuade themselves to hit all out, but that only makes sense with regard to certain shots and certain moments in the point; when other sorts of shots need to be player the shriek can only distract since it's expressing something incompatible with the shot. A waste of energy and a ridiculous spectacle. "

absolutely. Men use it "properly"

Women's game is more aggressive and harder hitting relatively, so I'd expect it to be more noticeable but there's a difference between forcing yourself to breathe out on a shot, and shouting for so long after your shot that your opponent is already hitting the ball.

I don't think women need any screaming at all even at this level of exertion. Maybe an occasional grunt, not even that. If Henin could play in silence, everybody should be able to!

That's like saying if Fed can hit single handed backhand, Nole shouldn't need 2 hands.

sorry, I don't know what you mean...