Maria Sharapova: I’ve been grunting since I was a kid. It’s just instinctive. It’s not planned or I never thought about it while playing. It just came naturally. You either do it or you don’t.
Victoria Azarenka: I’m just being me. I say what I want to say. I laugh when I want to laugh. I play how I want to play. I grunt when I want to grunt. I can’t stop and I won’t. Guys grunt too.
Serena Williams: I grunt because growing up I liked Monica Seles and she had this very cool grunt which sounded like, “aaa-eee.”
So I started grunting and later it came naturally.
Monica Seles: I’ve grunted since age 7-8. I was a little girl and they didn’t have kids racquets in those days so my dad gave me his racquet, and I was tiny, so I put all my energy into it and so the grunt.
