LGBTQ+ Players At Wimbledon 2025 #shorts #lgbtq #wimbledon

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LGBTQ+ Players At Wimbledon 2025 #shorts #lgbtq #wimbledon

The third Grand Slam event of 2025, Wimbledon, gets underway in London on Monday (30 June), and there are several gay tennis players offering some vital rainbow LGBTQ+ representation at SW19.

Since the days of trailblazing gay Grand Slam champions Billie Jean King and Martina Navratilova, women’s tennis has long provided some of the biggest LGBTQ+ names in sport – and there are currently several players Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) tour carrying that torch for a new generation.

So who is representing the community this year?
Russian native Daria Kasatkina became the highest-profile out gay tennis star on the WTA tour when she came out publicly in July 2022 – a move that eventually led her to switch allegiance to Australia in March 2025.

“For me, being openly gay, if I want to be myself, I have to make this step, and I did it,” Kasatkina said of her decision to represent Australia in competition.

The tennis player, who has a career-high ranking of number eight and reached the quarter-finals at Wimbledon in 2018, confirmed her relationship with Olympic figure skater Natalia Zabiiako via Instagram when she originally came out, with the pair announcing their engagement in June 2025.

Kasatkina has been an outspoken critic of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and anti-gay political culture – even if it’s come at great personal cost.

“It’s unsafe for me now, with the regime we have. As a gay person who opposes the war, it’s not possible to go back,” she told The Times in July 2023. “But I don’t regret it even 1 per cent.”

She went on: “When the war started and everything turned to hell, I felt very overwhelmed and I just decided, “F*** it all”. I couldn’t hide any more. I wanted to say my position on the war and my [sexuality], which was tough, coming from a country where being gay is not accepted, but it felt like I had a backpack of stones on my shoulders and I just had to throw it off.

“Afterwards, I faced a few consequences, but the only thing that worried me was my parents, and they were fine. They are proud of me.”

Greet Minnen, who has a career-high ranking of 59, was in a high-profile relationship with fellow Belgian tennis star Alison Van Uytvanck until late 2021.

In 2019, Minnen and Van Uytvanck became the first same-s3x couple in history to play doubles together at Wimbledon, reaching the second round.

Minnen’s public coming out took place at the tournament the year before, when Van Uytvanck rushed over to kiss her in the stands after defeating then-defending champion Garbiñe Muguruza in the second round.

Minnen and Van Uytvanck announced their engagement in December 2020 before going their separate ways the following year.

Dutch doubles specialist Demi Schuurs previously reached the semi-finals of the Australian Open as well as the quarter-finals of Wimbledon and the US Open in doubles.

Schuurs came out as gay as a teenager and has stated her desire to be a role model for young LGBTQ+ people.

She told the WTA in 2020: “I think that’s really nice to be able to support younger fans who may be going through the same things I did. I remember the feelings I had when I came out, so I want to help younger people understand that they should be how they want to be, and show what they want to show.

“You only live once, so you have to be happy and don’t need to stress about being gay or not.

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