Fritz believes an openly gay player would be accepted on ATP Tour: "It would be totally normal and I think people would be accepting"

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Monday, 26 December 2022 at 21:18
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Homosexuality and sports have always been a touchy topic with the lack of openly homosexual players are common thing across many sports.
Thing are improving with time as society grows more tolerant and Taylor Fritz is adamant that there would be wide acceptance on the tennis Tour if a player were to come out as gay. In a recent interview with Clay Tennis, Fritz gave his comments on it adding that is somewhat odd that there are no openly gay players on the ATP tour:
"I’m not sure if there are homosexual tennis players in the top 100. I don’t know. Maybe people think behind closed doors we know or something. Statistically speaking, there should be. Statistically. But not that I know."
He added:
"I think it’s odd, because I feel like a player would be accepted. Myself and my friends, other players on tour wouldn’t have any issues with it, it would be totally normal and I think people would be accepting."
When asked why a player would not come out, Fritz speculated:
"I couldn’t tell you why (no one has come out). Obviously anytime that would be a lot of 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."

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