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<p>A 9-year-old tennis player who grunts like her idol, Maria Sharapova, when she's playing has been kicked out of a tennis club in Australia.</p> <p>"It's pretty slight and now and again she hits it hard and makes a loud noise and that's it," he said.</p>

Nine-year-old tennis fan Lauryn Edwards modelled every aspect of her tennis game on her idol Maria Sharapova, from her powerful serve to her deadly forehand. Unfortunately for opponents at her club in Adelaide, Australia, Lauryn also managed to pick up one of Sharapova's least desirable traits - her ear-splitting grunt as she hits every shot. Now her grunting has led to her being banned from playing at her local tennis club, after her opponents complained it put them off...

(CBS) WAPPINGERS FALLS, N.Y. You can lift, strain, crunch and sweat all you want at the Planet Fitness in the Dutchess County village. But whatever you do, do not grunt. Yep, "no grunting." It says so, in black and white, on a sign posted at the gym. One former member learned the new rule the hard way. "This is really absurd, especially the part about the grunting," said Al Argibay, a corrections officer who learned first-hand "no grunting" means exactly that. Argibay, a former competitive bodybuilder, joined the gym in September because it was affordable and convenient.

LONDON (AFP) - Grunting noises made by female tennis players as they strike the ball are getting out of hand, and rules should be changed to crack down on the practice, Wimbledon referee Alan Mills has said, according to a report. Mills, Wimbledon's chief official for 22 years who retires after this week's tournament, which begins on Monday, told The Sunday Times he believed coaches were teaching young women players to grunt. "I don't like it at all. Today there is probably more grunting than there has ever been," he said. "If I was playing an opponent making so much...