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Victoria Azarenka. Noisy ... Victoria Azarenka. Photo: Reuters ISTANBUL: As the scream theme dominating the WTA Championships muffled the sound of Sam Stosur's inglorious thud back to earth before her final round-robin match against Li Na on Friday, the Australian and her coach, David Taylor, have both been drawn into an on-court shrieking debate that will not be silenced. World No.1 Caroline Wozniacki effectively accused some of her peers of cheating by grunting loudly and ''on purpose'' while hitting the ball, calling on officials to police a practice she said gave the worst offenders an unfair advantage by masking the sound of the ball off the racquet. Stosur, whose US Open final opponent, Serena Williams, was famously penalised under the ''hindrance rule'' for calling out ''c'mon'' before a rally had finished, said after Wednesday's 6-2, 6-2 loss to high-decibel Belarusian Victoria Azarenka that, while she was not bothered by her opponent's noise and was generally ambivalent about the issue, she found it ''horrible'' TV viewing. ''I don't like hearing it when I'm watching it on TV, but when I'm out there I don't really notice it,'' she said. ''I think when you hear it every single time, you become unaware of it almost. But I don't know. Advertisement: Story continues below IFRAME: http://ad-apac.doubleclick.net/adi/onl.smh.sport/sport/tennis;cat1=tenn is;cat=sport;ctype=article;pos=3;sz=300x250;tile=3;ord=2.5681058E7? ''I guess it's one of those things. Some players feel the need to do it and some don't. ... I think if it is deliberate, it's probably not right.'' Taylor despises what he calls the ''illogical screaming'', and said he was regularly approached by members of the public who say ''Oh, it's great Sam won [the US Open] because she doesn't scream''. He said the grunts often came after the ball had been hit and when matches were close. ''I think this is really unpleasant for people who don't know tennis, and I think we're in tennis so we accept it more. But I think the general public don't like it, and I can see how it would be very unappealing to come and watch a match ... Sam's one of the quiet players, just gets on with the business, and I wish there were more people like that.'' Yet the Fed Cup captain rates as a far more serious issue Frenchwoman Marion Bartoli's constant jiggling around before returning serve in her recent 6-3, 6-1 finals win against Stosur in Osaka. Taylor was critical of ''a lot of excessive movement from Bartoli when the player's about to toss the ball and you're seeing out of the corner of your eye massive movement across, forward, I think that's pretty close to hindrance''. ''The movement when someone's serving I think is a real concern. It's always a judgment call of the umpire isn't it? But I don't think that's correct,'' he said. Bartoli, the first alternate in Istanbul, will replace the injured Sharapova for tonight's final group matches, the second seed having withdrawn following her opening night loss to Stosur with another against Li. That guaranteed Wozniacki - who remains slam-less, and was beaten 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 by Vera Zvonareva yesterday - a second straight year-end No.1 ranking, last achieved by Justine Henin in 2006-7. Stosur's fate is still to be determined, but she is within touching distance of a second consecutive year in the last four, and the world No.7 carries a 5-0 career record against Li into a match that is likely to decide who reaches the semis. The Queenslander said she had troubled Li in the past with her kick serve out wide and expects no surprises in either player's approach this time. ''I think it's one of those matches where I've got to definitely go out there, play aggressive, and know that maybe 'these are her tendencies, these are mine, and how are they going to match up'?'' Stosur said she was determined not to dwell on her downer against Azarenka - her fifth consecutive loss against the voluble fourth seed - under a round-robin format where one strike does not necessarily mean out. Taylor was also upbeat, describing the Azarenka performance as ''an isolated bad match'' that was Stosur's worst since her first-round Wimbledon shocker against Hungarian Melinda Czink. 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