Taylor Fritz says an openly gay player would be accepted on the ATP Tour

Taylor Fritz said that if an ATP Tour men’s player came out as gay, his peers would welcome him, the No. 1 player told a tennis publication. Clay.

While leading and current players on the WTA Tour have come out as gay, no male player competing at the top level of the sport has done so to date.

I’m not sure if there are gay tennis players in the top 100, Fritz said in an interview published on Sunday. Statistically, it should be. … I think it’s strange because I feel like the player would be accepted.

Myself and my friends, other players on the tour, would have no problem with that, it would be perfectly normal and I think people would accept.

READ: Djokovic gives warm welcome to Australian Open return

The 25-year-old world number nine said players may be reluctant to come out because of the attention that comes with it.

I couldn’t tell you why (no one has come out),” Fritz said.

That would be big news, and maybe people just don’t want to be in the spotlight, maybe they don’t want the distraction of getting all the attention and stuff like that.

Another reason could be that those players don’t want to risk being the target of offensive language or being alienated by their peers.