LGBT+ Representation in Tennis at the French Open
According to Pink News, there's 5 gay women in the French Open providing us with LGBT+ representation in tennis. Click here to see their Facebook video of them. 🏳️🌈🎾 So, we have 5 sapphic women out of how many in the Grand Slam women's draw? There's 128 women in just the singles main draw alone!! But there are 240 singles players between the main draw and qualifiers. So the percentage is much worse than that because it's 4 out of 240 and 1 more, Demi Schuurs, from the doubles draw. The main draw is comprised of 104 women who, simply through their ranking, go straight to the main draw. The qualifying draw is also a draw of 128 players, 16 of whom won all their matches to become the qualifiers who go forwards to the main draw. Then there's 8 women who gain entry through gaining wild cards. That's called LGBT+ representation? 🤣 Yes, generically, it's LGBT+ representation 🏳️🌈, albeit miniscule, but they are only representing one category within the LG...