Joao Lucas Reis Da Silva: the tennis participant is the primary energetic male skilled to return ahead publicly | Tennis information

Brazilian Joao Lucas Reis Da Silva has turn out to be the primary energetic male skilled participant to return ahead publicly.

The 24-year-old shared a sequence of images with actor and mannequin Gui Sampaio Ricardo on Instagram.

He captioned the pictures: “Comfortable birthday. Comfortable life. I really like you a lot.”

Da Silva is presently ranked 401st in singles on the ATP Tour after reaching a profession excessive of 259 final Could.

He reached the semi-finals of the Temuco Challenger in Chile final month and was runner-up on house soil on the Florianopolis Challenger earlier this 12 months.

Former world quantity 64 Brian Vahaly got here out as homosexual in 2017, 10 years after retiring from the game, and the American has make clear a few of the obstacles confronted by homosexual gamers.

“I heard homophobic feedback on a regular basis within the locker room, to my face, behind my again,” he mentioned. The telegraph in 2018. “It was simply a part of the tradition.”

A number of feminine tennis gamers have come out overtly as homosexual in recent times, together with Prime 10 star Daria Kasatkina, who’s in a relationship with determine skating champion Natalia Zabiiako, Nadia Podoroska, Greet Minnen and Sam Stosur, whereas icons Billie Jean King and Martina Navratilova are the very best recognized.

Kasatkina shared that turning into homosexual helped her after protecting that a part of her life personal for thus lengthy.

“I felt much less stress,” she mentioned. “I took that stress off my shoulders as a result of when it’s important to take into consideration tennis but in addition take into consideration issues deep in your head, it is simply not good.

“I do not forget that after saying all this stuff, I felt a lot better. It was the most effective choices of final 12 months and I am pleased with the end result. And thanks to the individuals who have been subsequent to me to assist me.”