Which male tennis players are gay

I have to do the same thing. How do you manage to keep traveling and playing? The whole family plays. I can travel with peace of mind until October this year. Not much has changed for me. Last year I came close to doing it.

I feel that my level is there, although I still have to improve some important things. I have to wake up in the morning and practice at nine. The nature of tennis, gender differences and money are key reasons why only one active men's player has come out in tennis.

How do you finance your career? And Rafa Nadal and Guga Kuerten were my other two idols. When I saw that the reactions were very good, I calmed down. Although there are openly gay players in men’s football, baseball, basketball, rugby and American football, it seems as if in tennis, gay players’ “love for the sport and what sport gives them overrides the exclusion they feel,” according to Vahaly, who is on the USTA Board of Directors and was instrumental in starting and continuing.

And when I saw that the photo had repercussions in Europe, all over the world, I got a bit worried. Selec: English Spanish. It was a very motivating feeling. My dad, my mum… My brother played too, he played in junior tournaments in Brazil, but he stopped at an early age, at 15 or If I saw him on the TV I would drop everything to watch him.

It was a sudden change, things I heard that I never heard again. I already had the support of my family, my friends, my coaches… But there was a part of me that was a little worried. And a lot of people around me too, people I already knew I could count on, but who wrote me a lot of nice and kind things.

And you said at one point that the reactions surprised you. There are a handful of out gay tennis players offering vital LGBTQ+ representation at Wimbledon in London. Twenty-two years later, he again turned heads when he simply uploaded a photo with his boyfriend on Instagram.

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And I have the support of my city, Recife, and my state, Pernambuco. And then I sat down and started to think. Reis, who reached No. This is a macho sport. That was the biggest motivation.