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Although Top Ten standouts Taylor Fritz and Daniil Medvedev have stated that the ATP is progressive enough to accept gay players, former players who are now out of the closet say different things. Joao Lucas Reis has made history to become the first openly gay active professional male tennis player. The world No came out publicly on social media in honour of his boyfriend Gui Sampaio Ricardo's birthday, sharing photos of the paid with a sweet message announcing their relationship status. Happy life,' the year-old Brazilian captioned the photoset of himself and the actor and model.

The second Grand Slam event on the tennis calendar, the French Open, or Roland Garros, got underway in Paris on Sunday (25 May), and there are several gay tennis players offering some vital rainbow LGBTQ+ representation. When Brazilian tennis player Joao Lucas Reis da Silva posted a loving birthday message to his boyfriend on Instagram, he did not think it was a big deal. After all, Reis da Silva had previously uploaded personal photographs of his partner Guilherme Sampaio Ricardo on other birthdays, and also on Valentine's Day. Their relationship was not a secret.

Here are some of the top ATP stars who have publicly said they would support an openly gay men’s pro tennis player: Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Liam Brody, Kevin. The only two openly gay men to compete in elite-level tennis were active before World War Two. Gottfried von Cramm was a multiple grand slam winner, but was arrested for being gay in Nazi Germany. The tennis star is a 20th century lesbian icon.

There are more than players with an ATP ranking but none of them are openly LGBT. Just hours before the US Open was hampered by a furious storm on Wednesday, rainbow flags and wristbands were visible everywhere at the venue in support of one of the USTA’s initiatives. By Adrian Margaret Brune. It was an otherwise ordinary day in the world of tennis. Just two weeks before, the men had wrapped their season in Turin and the women had said goodbye in Texas.