Sabine Lisicki booked a fourth-round date with Maria Sharapova and has refused to rule out making a complaint if the Russian’s grunting becomes unbearable.
Blocking her path is Sharapova, who brushed aside Su-Wei Hsieh 6-1, 6-4 in double-quick time on Centre Court. And Lisicki now faces the issue of whether to complain about the noise coming from the other side of the net, as she did during her victory over Bojana Jovanovski earlier this week.
During their second-round encounter the 15th seed invoked the ‘hindrance rule’, bringing the issue to the attention of umpire Mariana Alves, who failed to take any action.
Lisicki moaned afterwards that it was so loud she ‘couldn’t hear the sound of the ball hitting the racket’, claiming the grunting was handing her opponent an unfair advantage.
The Russian remains one of the worst when it comes to making a noise and it remains to be seen whether Lisicki will take similar action. ‘I’m going to focus on myself in that match,’ said the German. ‘We will see what happens out there. It did bother me in my last match and that’s why I complained. It was better afterwards.’
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Good news, can't have Sharapova screaming non-stop as usual