There will be no out gay male tennis players at the U.S. Open - Outsports

Contents:

• TOP NAM COME IN SUPPORT OF OPENLY GAY PLAYERS ON THE MEN’S TOUR
• THERE ARE NO PUBLICLY OUT GAY PRO MALE TENNIS PLAYERS AND NOBODY REALLY KNOWS WHY
• WHY ARE THERE NO OPENLY GAY ATHLET IN MEN’S PROFSNAL TENNIS?
• IS THERE ANY GAY PLAYER ATP ?
• THERE WILL BE NO OUT GAY MALE TENNIS PLAYERS AT THE U.S. OPEN, YET AGA
• "IF THERE'S A GAY PLAYER THE LOCKER ROOM, NOTHG HAPPENS" - DIEGO SCHWARTZMAN, THE LATT STAR TO SUPPORT THE LGBTQ MOVEMENT

TOP NAM COME IN SUPPORT OF OPENLY GAY PLAYERS ON THE MEN’S TOUR

As a former men’s llegiate tennis player and openly gay member of my team, this qutn nagged at me as I attend the monumental first ever Pri event at the U. As a former llegiate tennis player and gay man, this event stck a particularly sensive chord for me. After all of the homophobia I have personally experienced sports, the panelists and the packed dience gave me so much hope for the future of cln sports.

The trailblazer for gay visibily on the ATP tour scribed himself durg the panel discsn as “an anx guy and an anx tennis player, ” statg that his disfort wh his sexual orientatn throughout his life was a signifint ntributor to his anxiety. To me, the fact that Vahaly was even able to make on tour as a closeted gay man the 2000s mak him que an anomaly. The days, top players Roger Ferer, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray have all publicly stated that they would wele an out gay man to the ATP.

While we now celebrate Kg for her acplishments as a gay rights activist, the sacrific she had to make and terrors that she endured for wantg to be her thentic self after beg outed towards the end of her profsnal tennis reer – nearly 40 years ago – are unjtifiable. Statistilly speakg, there mt be a man the top 100, 200, 500 or even 1, 000 who is gay, right? Combe that wh gay and bisexual men reprentg a signifintly smaller portn of the populatn than heterosexual men, and the odds of havg one of makg through the ranks growg up and currently beg a profsnal tennis player are slim, no matter how welg players such as Ferer, Djokovic and Murray are 2019.

THERE ARE NO PUBLICLY OUT GAY PRO MALE TENNIS PLAYERS AND NOBODY REALLY KNOWS WHY

There uld be someone makg their way up the rankgs junrs right now, who hopefully will not be terred om tennis for beg a gay or bisexual man, who will see events such as the U.

As Rippon highlighted, g out and beg labeled as “that gay athlete” is not easy to al wh.

Some tennis players astonished everyone by revealg their genr publicly and g out as homosexual. We will unravel the top 5 tennis players you didn’t know were homosexual. The lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and other non-cisgenr or non-heterosexual (LGBTQ+) muny is prent wh sports worldwi.

WHY ARE THERE NO OPENLY GAY ATHLET IN MEN’S PROFSNAL TENNIS?

Top 5 Tennis Players You Didn’t Know Were Homosexual.

Compared to other sports, Tennis has maly been open and non-homophobic.

Many well-known players are openly gay and lbian and have bee champns proudly, makg themselv known to the world. Brian Vahaly, the top tennis player who me out as a homosexual (Source: Tennis World). Casey Dellacqua is one of the tennis players to e out as homosexual (Source: Ptert).

IS THERE ANY GAY PLAYER ATP ?

Lisa Raymond, another homosexual tennis player (Source: Twter). Gigi Fernánz is also a renowned tennis player who me out as homosexual (Source: Ptert).

Mart Navratilova me out as homosexual 1981, makg her one of the few tennis players to do so (Source: Getty Imag). Are there any gay male ATP players, current or retired? And that’s the fact that there has never been the prence of an openly gay male tennis player on the profsnal tour.

There are no openly gay or bisexual men that pete profsnally on the Men’s ATP Tour. We have vered other openly gay tennis players the past but have not seen them on the profsnal circu (EXCLUSIVE: Lendale Johnson on Beg The First Openly Gay Tennis Player & More). Gay players existed at other levels and then there were those that would e out after they retired, but to have an active top-tier player your sport e out as gay, shows that there is forward progrsn of the sport as a whole workg to accept LGBTQ players.

THERE WILL BE NO OUT GAY MALE TENNIS PLAYERS AT THE U.S. OPEN, YET AGA

While the world is seeg male athlet other sports pete as openly gay athlet at the top levels, as jt mentned, vered weekly on our televisns and on the ont page of the sports pag, tennis seems to turn a bld eye when to havg healthy nversatns surroundg the LGBTQIA muny, visibily, and top-tier petn. Unlike the women’s tour (WTA), where there are tennis giants like the legendary Billie Jean Kg and Marta Navratilova who are openly gay, the men’s tour seems as if they aren’t acceptg of any male player who isn’t an alpha male warrr who gnts aggrsively and beats his cht whenever they h a wner. And there has been homophobic language slurred both on and off urts by male athlet.

Most recently Italian tennis star Fab Fogni yelled a homophobic slur out of “tratn” at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.

Brian Vahaly (an Amerin retired profsnal tennis player) me out as gay 2017, 10 years after officially retirg om the sport. 64, who peted profsnally for 6 years, said that gay players may feel disuraged om beg open about their sexualy bee of “sponsors, fans, fay and iendships. Vahaly told the Thomson Rters Foundatn that “ was impossible to go a week” whout hearg homophobic slurs when he played on the ATP tour.

"IF THERE'S A GAY PLAYER THE LOCKER ROOM, NOTHG HAPPENS" - DIEGO SCHWARTZMAN, THE LATT STAR TO SUPPORT THE LGBTQ MOVEMENT

“When I was petg the mid-2000s, I would not scribe tennis as a very welg environment for gay players, ” he said, addg he was hopeful that more gay, male players at the ele level would e out as acceptance grows sport. There are multiple female players, om many different generatns, who are openly gay tennis players. Sce then, seems the WTA tour has advanced wh the tim and adjted the mdset and culture of women’s tennis regards to the gay muny.