It’s the climactic week at Wimbledon, the world’s most prestigious tennis tournament, and the usual sights and sounds are on display: Players competing in their traditional white. Well-dressed ...

"If Rafael Nadal is grunting and Roger Federer is not, is that fair?" That's the question behind a new study that researchers at the University of Hawaii and the University of British Columbia are ...

What does it take to be "ladylike" in tennis? For many of the world's top female tennis players, it's to remain silent. In recent years, tennis associations launched campaigns to ban grunting among ...

Fans gear up for the US Open. Source: Andreas Komodromos/Flickr As the US Open tournament gets underway, tennis fans and sports pundits around the world are predicting who will walk away with the ...

Tennis fans heading to the French Open with a sensitivity to noise might want to treasure the coming fortnight at Roland Garros. That’s because after the conclusion of the season’s second grand slam ...

Listen up, tennis fans, it’s quiz time. That explosive, guttural grunt issued by some of the world’s best-known tennis players at the moment of contact with the ball is: a) a rude, pointless and ...

On Day 2 of the Big Ten Championships for track and field in Nebraska, Oregon saw two athletes finish first in their qualification heats, and... In karate, the kiai is a short, quick yell that ...

Last month, in the second round of the U.S. Open, Fernando Verdasco, a Spaniard, broke new ground when, while smacking a serve, he unleashed a grunt that sounded uncannily like “Au revoir!” This put ...

Hockey has that crunching sound when a player is nailed against the boards, motorsports has the roar of screaming engines, and Women's tennis has its grunt music. Close your eyes the next time you're ...

Perhaps the lethal part of Monica Seles' tennis game wasn't her devastating backhand or her footwork along the baseline. Turns out, it may have been her legendary grunts. Researchers from Hawaii and ...

Fans gear up for the US Open. Source: Andreas Komodromos/Flickr As the US Open tournament gets underway, tennis fans and sports pundits around the world are predicting who will walk away with the ...