Circum Spective

Tennis Questions

In the spirit of the U.S. Open Tennis Tournament, let me ask some "tennis questions":

1. Why do the female tennis players waste energy hopping up and down in between points, as if their muscles are going to freeze up on them in fifteen or twenty seconds? And have you ever noticed that male players don't engage in this pointless hopping behavior? 
   
2. Also - and even more importantly -- why do female players stuff a tennis ball in their panties when it is their turn to serve? Do they not realize that they are playing in the U.S. Open and that they can get as many balls as they want from one of the seventy-five or so ball boys (and girls) standing around the court? 
3. Moreover, why do so many players "check" the balls that are tossed to them and then throw out the one or two that don't seem to meet their standards (whatever those are). I have assumed they are looking for the newer looking, and therefore, more lively balls. So why stuff one in your sweaty panties? Isn't that ball now automatically not one of the more lively balls?
4. And another point to make about stuffing balls in your panties: they never seem to take that ball out and use it anyway. They just play the entire service game with that ball stuck in there. Hello-o-oo!
   
5. And last but not least ... it looks ridiculous.
   

P.S. 
I'm not even going to mention the useless, energy-sapping grunting that goes on. It doesn't help them hit the ball harder. It just uses energy they should be saving for the third (or fifth) set. It has gotten so bad that I have to watch the womens' matches with the sound turned down! 

Someone make them stop!  ...please!!