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Tennis: Stars React to Playboy Spread

Posted: Jul 22nd 2008 12:30PM by Elie Seckbach (author feed)
Filed under: Tennis, Women's Sports, FanHouse TV, The Word

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Elie Seckbach, the Embedded Correspondent, brings his exclusive video reporting to FanHouse. Check back regularly for more videos.

The East West Bank Classic draws some of the biggest names from the world of Tennis. On opening day we were there and talked to Serena Williams, Jelena Jankovic, Vera Zvonareva and Alexsandra Wozniak. Around 1:55 into the video find out what some of the stars think about Ashley Harkleroad's pictures in Playboy.

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Ashley Harkleroad Hasn't Won a Grand Slam, Has Won Thousands of Male Fans

Posted: Jul 20th 2008 5:46PM by Michael David Smith (author feed)
Filed under: Tennis, Women's Sports

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If you knew who Ashley Harkleroad was a couple of months ago, you're probably a hard-core tennis fan. She's ranked No. 72 in the world and has never advanced past the third round of a Grand Slam event, and that means that she was known only those who follow the sport passionately.

But that all changed in May, when the news broke that Harkleroad was planning to appear in Playboy. The issue with Harkleroad on the cover has now hit newsstands, and you can bet she now has thousands of male fans who have never seen her play tennis.

For her part, Harkleroad says she hopes those Playboy pictures will change perceptions of female athletes' bodies:

"For me, I have a very natural body," Harkleroad said. "I'm an athlete who is fit and not very big-busted at all.

"I'm proud of that. I wanted to show that female athletes, who are fit and muscular, can have very beautiful bodies just like regular models."

For that, she may get some new female fans, too.

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