Grunts that actually came from somebody's mouth

For some reason, Chris Evert is just now realizing how annoying it is to sit through a female tennis match. She’s sick and tired of the screams, the shrieks, the yells and all around gruntathons.

“Grunting is one thing but the shrill sound that you hear with players nowadays, and especially they get louder when they hit a winner, that’s the thing that I observe as a player.”

“It comes before they hit the shot. That’s the first thing you hear and you are kind of like thrown off guard as a player and then before you know the ball gets past you.”

“It is distracting when you are hearing this and I think the grunts are getting louder and more shrill now with the current players.’

“The next time you watch say a Maria Sharapova — the grunting is consistent but all of a sudden when she has a set up to hit a winner.

“I don’t understand, they say you’ve got to blow air out when you hit the ball.

“Steffi Graf hit the ball a ton and she didn’t grunt. There were a lot of players, hard-hitting players, and you never heard a peep out of them.

“I don’t understand the philosophy of it.”

And I don’t understand how Evert didn’t say something similar following this 1989 match with Monica Seles.

Unrelated: when I think of Monica Seles grunting, I think of the early 90s SNL skit “At Home With Monica” where she’d scream simply over opening the refrigerator door. Unfortunately, that’s all I can do is think about it, because the video is nowhere on the Internets. Jerks.

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