In search of the elive gay or bisexual male tennis player | alastairlawrie

Contents:

• TOP NAM COME IN SUPPORT OF OPENLY GAY PLAYERS ON THE MEN’S TOUR
• NOVAK DJOKOVIC ROOTG FOR AN OPENLY GAY TENNIS PLAYER TO E OUT
• IN SEARCH OF THE ELIVE GAY OR BISEXUAL MALE TENNIS PLAYER
• THE GAYS AND TENNIS 32: A. ZVEREV LOOKS TO THE MAJORS

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

Top Nam Come In Support Of Openly Gay Players On The Men’s Tour. “Are there any gays on the ATP Tour?

”Unlike the women’s game, there have been few openly gay players on the ATP Tour historilly.

NOVAK DJOKOVIC ROOTG FOR AN OPENLY GAY TENNIS PLAYER TO E OUT

Earlier this year an terview wh UbiTennis, he relled hearg var homophobic jok on the Tour durg his time as a player.

“The reason we don’t have openly gay players on the ATP Tour, I’m not sure of the reason, but I feel me, as a player, would be very open, very wele. “Tennis is wonrfully gay. 1 ranked men’s tennis player the world, said that everybody has a right to exprs their sexual orientatn as he lent his support behd a male tennis player one day g out as gay.

IN SEARCH OF THE ELIVE GAY OR BISEXUAL MALE TENNIS PLAYER

In 2017 Ana Brnabic beme Serbia’s first gay prime mister. However, she has been cricized for failg to rce the number of attacks on gay people and for not pursug LGBT issu. Historilly, there have been few openly gay players men’s tennis.

Meanwhile, 1920s tennis superstar Bill Tiln was also gay, but never publicly clared due to the perceptn of homosexualy durg that time. But, believe or not, there is at least one creature tennis which is even rarer, ed almost mythil – the openly gay or bisexual male tennis player. In the long history of this genteel sport, there have been only two male tennis players of note who have been lked to homo- or bi-sexualy, and both had tragic personal stori.

There have been no openly gay or bisexual male players the post-Send World War perd, and certaly none of any note the Open era.

THE GAYS AND TENNIS 32: A. ZVEREV LOOKS TO THE MAJORS

Now, I will preface the rt of this article by sayg that I am not an ‘sir’ on the men’s tour, and don’t know of any gay or bisexual male players (nor am I gog to play the ‘is he or isn’t he’ game of speculatn – sorry). Wh at least 72 untri around the world still crimalisg homosexualy (and some of those only crimalisg male, rather than female, same-sex sexual terurse), the threat of havg to play a untry where you are nsired a crimal mt be a relevant nsiratn. Of urse, most players set their own schl, and none of the Grand Slams or pulsory Masters tournaments are held untri where homosexualy is crimalised.

Of those, Uzbekistan has laws crimalisg male, but not female, homosexualy (by up to 3 years imprisonment).

For a player to e out, a world where more than one third of untri crimalise homosexualy, means potentially makg themselv unsaleable a large number of markets. This nsiratn is even more acute when you nsir that one way which ele players le their pockets durg the off-season is to play exhibn match, creasgly staged oil-rich Middle Eastern untri (often wh their own laws agast homosexualy). It is possible that an openly gay male player’s vatn uld get ‘lost the mail’ such circumstanc.