By Nick Georgandis

In their five-year reign of terror on the E! network, the Kardashian family has managed to ruin a lot of things for a lot of people -- the sanctity of marriage, Lamar Odom's basketball career, family values -- but never anything as near and dear to Net Notes as the sport of tennis, which fell victim to the family's bizarre behavior in a recent episode of "Keeping Up with the Kardashians."

Matriarch Kris Kardashian convinced her family to take up tennis with her again, as they had when they were children. While the cult, er, clan of Kardashians was game for a little physical activity, nothing could prepare them for Kris's ungodly grunts as she hit the ball with all the power and ferocity of a comatose Margaret Osborne duPont.

With a television microphone attached to her collar, Mama Kardashian's grunts made Victoria Azarenka sound like a mime, and the rest of her family was quick to get their digs in, prompting a full-on McEnroe-esque meltdown complete with racquet-throwing and storming off the court.

Just when it seemed the Kardashians would give up the sport entirely because of the episode, the most unlikely thing of all transpired. Vapid socialite daughter Kim grew a conscience, and apologized to her mother with custom-made Chanel racquet and tennis balls -- that's how they do "olive branch" -- encouraging her to ignore the family's jibes and take up the sport again.

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