Serena Williams Shares the Origin of Her Grunt on the Tennis Court: 'It's Like a Part of My Life'Brenton Blanchet is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. He has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Brenton's work has previously appeared in Billboard, Pigeons & Planes and Complex.published on Thursday, July 4. While talking to host Sean Evans, she revealed that the go-to noise was actually inspired by another tennis great.and she grunts. She had this really cool grunt.
Seles, who secured 59 career titles and played her last professional match in 2003, actually inspired Wimbledon’s Centre Court “grunt-o-meter," according to thein 2013, she began grunting at a young age. “Some people loved it, others hated it,” Seles said. “I grunted since I was age 7. I was a little girl, and they didn’t have kid’s racquets in those days.
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