This might just be the quietest Wimbledon in years. Tennis has put Maria Sharapova on mute with the Russian banned after failing a drugs test. Victoria Azarenka is absent because of a knee injury, and Rafael Nadal isn't playing here because his wrist won't let him.
But don't imagine that grunting has disappeared from tennis. Nick Bollettieri, the American coach who has previously been blamed for encouraging players to make some noise as they strike the ball, has told the Wimbledon Diary that "grunting is still part of the game".
"We're here in England and it's all prim and proper, but you can't stop this, it's everywhere," he said. "If you took one of those sound-meters to the courts, you'd find that the men are just as loud as the ladies. So don't pin this all on the girls.
"The men and the women are putting every ounce of energy -- their hearts and souls -- into hitting the ball, and what are you going to tell them? You're going to tell them to be quiet? Are you crazy?"
The last thing that tennis should be doing, Bollettieri suggested, is silencing the players and turning them into "mummies" or "square asses".
"You don't want them to come to the court dressed in a shirt and tie and being a square ass," he said. "We've got to make this game fun, baby. We've got to have a little excitement. Don't we want the players to show how much they care and want to win?"
50 shades of ... green?
Among the quirks of this tournament is that if you stand at the southern end of all the courts across the All England Club, you will notice that the stripe to the left of the centre is the lighter shade of green.
"Unless you're looking out for that, you wouldn't notice that," the head groundsman, Neil Stubley, told the Wimbledon Diary. "But that's just us being meticulous about what we do. We want to be as close to perfection as we possibly can."
Parlez-vous Francais?
If Serena Williams had her way, she would speak more French with her coach Patrick Mouratoglou. But Mouratoglou, a Frenchman of Greek descent, told the Wimbledon Diary he prefers to have all important conversations -- such as when they are discussing tennis -- in English.
"We don't speak French together as much as we should. Serena always asks me to speak French to her but I'm so used to speaking English to her. My vocabulary in English is bigger than hers in French, and I want to be understood when we're talking about tennis," he said. "Serena loves to speak French. She has a good accent, not bad at all. If I compare her to other Americans, she's doing really well."
Kvitova the clean freak
There is no tidier tennis player than Petra Kvitova, a winner of two Wimbledon titles. The morning after winning the 2014 Championships, the Czech vacuumed the house she had rented in Wimbledon Village. She also put the bins out. That behaviour has continued this summer.
A member of her entourage told the Wimbledon Diary that Kvitova is the one "looking after the team" in the house, including doing the laundry.