{"id":523526,"date":"2023-01-16T18:00:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T18:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=523526"},"modified":"2023-01-16T20:07:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T20:07:06","slug":"daria-kasatkina-coming-out-helped-me-i-just-felt-much-better-i-m-happy-with-the-outcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/daria-kasatkina-coming-out-helped-me-i-just-felt-much-better-i-m-happy-with-the-outcome","title":{"rendered":"Daria Kasatkina: \u2018Coming out helped me. I just felt much better, I\u2019m happy with the outcome\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daria Kasatkina took huge risks off the court last year, coming out as gay and condeming her country&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine.The word &#8220;courage&#8221; is used a lot in tennis circles, usually to reference some unlikely victory or an outstanding effort under pressure. True courage, though, is something different altogether. Step forward Daria Kasatkina.The Russian enjoyed a superb 2022 on the court, roaring back into the world&#8217;s top 10, four years after she first made it there. With her silky touch and finesse, the 25-year-old can bamboozle opponents, pulling them around on a string. But it is off the court where Kasatkina made an even bigger impression last year and where she wants to continue to make her mark.In a number of interviews broadcast on YouTube in July, Kasatkina criticised her country&#8217;s invasion and war in Ukraine. At the same time, she came out as gay, another brave move. Knowing the danger of her words, and the potential implications back home,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word &#8220;courage&#8221; is used a lot in tennis circles, usually to reference some unlikely victory or an outstanding effort under pressure. True courage, though, is something different altogether. Step<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-tennis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}