Jolly quiet sports

WINCING as women tennis stars at Wimbledon grunt, groan and moan every time they wallop the ball, I couldn’t help but wonder why their illustrious predecessors Virginia Wade and Margaret Court never did the same.

You never saw footballers Sir Stanley Matthews and Sir Tom Finney spitting every few minutes, or kissing each other when they scored a goal.

And neither did you hear gentlemen cricketers such as Peter May or the Rev David Sheppard shouting obscenities like Kagiso Rabada when an opposition batsman was bowled out. CHARLES GARTH, Ampthill, Beds.