Maria Sharapova Grunting: Tennis Star Admits She Doesn’t Know Why She Shrieks During Matches [VIDEO] : TENNIS : Sports World News

Maria Sharapova’s secret is out. Her shrieks throughout tennis matches serve no goal.

SI.com reported Tuesday about Sharapova’s interview on Ellen DeGeneres’ discuss present, wherein the host asks Sharapova about her grunting.

“I am undecided what it does,” Sharapova stated when DeGeneres requested her whether or not the grunting helps her respiration and exertion. “I nonetheless to at the present time do not actually know.”

That assertion alone ought to hasten the WTA’s noise-level testing because it pertains to grunting. In October, USA TODAY Sports reported that the WTA stated it had begun testing however didn’t point out how the info can be collected, measured or introduced.

Briefly, the WTA was gathering analysis however did not know what to do with it or the best way to create any form of grunting coverage due to it.

DeGeneres requested Sharapova whether or not she’s tried to not grunt and the way that might have an effect on her sport.

“I’ve by no means really tried, no,” Sharapova stated, “as a result of when you begin enjoying, you go into this automated rhythm.”

“So you do not even know you are doing it,” DeGeneres stated.

“No,” Sharapova responded.

Shrieking in ladies’s tennis has been a subject since Monica Seles was a high participant within the early Nineteen Nineties. It has additionally affected the boys’s sport. In March, SI.com reported of a match wherein Andy Murray criticized opponent Carlos Berlocq for his grunting solely on sure factors to distract Murray after Berlocq complained that Murray was taking an excessive amount of time between factors.

Berlocq stated he is been grunting his complete tennis profession and is not about to alter at this stage of his profession.

WTA officers unveiled a three-part plan to curb grunting by means of expertise, guidelines modifications and training which it publicized at Wimbledon … in 2012. Nonetheless, WTA chief govt Stacey Allaster informed USA TODAY Sports activities that the governing physique nonetheless was dedicated to that sport plan.

“We’re dedicated to the technique to drive extreme grunting out of the sport,” Allaster stated, “and we consider it is by means of the subsequent technology.”

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