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First, there was sliced bread. Then, there was the spork. But this may hold the title of “greatest thing since” for centuries to come.
Folks listening to Wimbledon on the radio in the United Kingdom will no longer have to endure the grunting that has become so annoyingly associated with tennis. The BBC recently introduced a new program that allows listeners to minimize the sound of such shrieking during broadcasts.
Maria Sharapova, after all, is much more aesthetically pleasing to the eye than she is the ear, and now tennis fans won’t have to turn to the car-alarm station for ear-drum relief.