{"id":84882,"date":"2022-07-22T15:28:43","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T15:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/atp-men-s-tennis-tour-hoping-to-increase-lgbtq-inclusion"},"modified":"2022-07-22T15:28:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T15:28:43","slug":"atp-men-s-tennis-tour-hoping-to-increase-lgbtq-inclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/atp-men-s-tennis-tour-hoping-to-increase-lgbtq-inclusion","title":{"rendered":"ATP men&#8217;s tennis tour hoping to increase LGBTQ inclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (AP) &#8212; The ATP is teaming up with You Can Play, a group working to increase LGBTQ inclusion in sports, after 75% of players who participated in a survey by the men&#8217;s tennis tour said they had heard other players use homophobic slurs. The tour announced Friday that it is launching a multiyear education partnership with You Can Play, which has worked with the NHL, MLS and NASCAR. The ATP&#8217;s anonymous, online survey was distributed to hundreds of players last year; 65 responded. Some also agreed to be interviewed. The ATP said its findings &#8220;indicated a strong fear of rejection, isolation from others on tour, and loneliness as being likely barriers to LGBTQ+ players publicly disclosing their sexuality to others.&#8221; There are no openly gay athletes in men&#8217;s tennis currently. The tour said a majority of participants &#8220;were supportive of ATP taking action to combat homophobia.&#8221; ___ More AP tennis: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis and https:\/\/twitter.com\/AP_Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (AP) &#8212; The ATP is teaming up with You Can Play, a group working to increase LGBTQ inclusion in sports, after 75% of players who participated in a survey<\/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":[127,1],"tags":[147,241,55,58,71],"class_list":["post-84882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mls","category-news","tag-mls","tag-nascar","tag-society","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84882","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=84882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}