Those who defend this annoyance maintain that players are taught to exhale as they hit the ball and that vocalizing reinforces that practice. On the other hand, some of the best men players, Roger Federer for example, do not have to shriek while exhaling. And the irony is that the fans are expected to be quiet during play while one or both women are screaming.
The rules of tennis prohibit this screaming by declaring that a player creating a distraction during a point is guilty of a hindrance resulting in the loss of the point. So, why don't the umpires impose penalties? Apparently, the officials fear that the penalties would seem arbitrary in the sense that who is to decide at what point a noise becomes a hindrance.
A solution would be to have a sound meter that would notify the umpire that the noise created by a player has exceeded a predetermined decibel level. The umpire then would impose a point-penalty after the player has received one warning. I suspect that players would be able to play within those limits as well as they do now.
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