Monica seles born
Martina hingis.
You didn’t have to see Monica Seles to know she was playing. You would hear her first.
Her grunts and shrieks were as legendary as her pulverizing two-handed forehand and backhand.
Monica seles born
U.K. newspaper The Telegraph wrote that she was the inspirations behind Wimbledon’s Centre Court “grunt-o-meter” and recorded her decibel level at 93.2, equivalent to a police whistle, noisy home appliances, a pneumatic drill, and not far below a jackhammer.
The bigger the moment, the louder Seles became, which meant that throughout her career she frequently reached rocket launching levels.
“Some people loved it (the grunt), others hated it,” Seles told the Wall Street Journal in 2013. “I grunted since I was age 7. I was a little girl, and they didn’t have kid’s racquets in those days. So my dad just gave me his racquet to play with, but I was tiny, so I put all my energy into it, just the same way I played with two hands from both sides, because I had to. It wasn’t an issue until I