
← Second Serve Tennis19 sep · 14 min
To Grunt Or Not To Grunt - That Is The Question!
To Grunt Or Not To Grunt - That Is The Question!
Grunting in tennis is one of those topics that sounds trivial until you’re on the return side of a long, lingering noise that hangs in the air while the ball is still traveling toward you. That’s when “just ignore it” stops being useful advice and turns into a real question about focus, fairness, and the unwritten culture of a sport that often expects near silence. In this conversation, we dig into why some grunts barely register while others feel disruptive, how singles can amplify the annoy...