From elite tennis to porn: who is Ashley Harkleroad

For years he lived in a world of rackets, training and physical challenges. but today his life has changed. His name is Ashley Harkleroad and passed by the game professional tennis become one pornstars with one goal: earn more money.

The American tennis player who turns 37 today and entered the Top 50 of the WTA ranking, completely changed his way of life.

Who is Ashley Harkleroad? From tennis to porn

harkleroad won 8 WTA titles and in 2003 managed to rise to position 39 in the standings, your best professional brand. Almost 10 years later, in 2012 the tennis player decided to retire.

After her retirement, the tennis player began to comment on the matches of that sport on the American channel Tennis channel. Once his time as a commentator was over, he decided to try something radically new: become a porn actress

Determined to succeed on this path, in April of this year she debuted a adult movieon the OnlyFans platform, which has enjoyed success in recent months.

The tennis player appears in the film with her husband, also a tennis player, Chuck Adams. “Followers would pay up to $5 for an erotic photo,” Ashley said.

But it’s not the first time that Harkleroad has moved to these areas. In 2008 it became the first professional athlete to pose completely nude for Playboy magazine. Before that she had had her first child.

“I am the first professional tennis player to be on the cover of Playboy and now on OnlyFans. Why not?” she admitted proudly.

In an interview for his country’s media, he confessed that: “I thought about it, and it was something I did. I am proud of my body. I was depicting the body of a female athlete.”

The young woman continued her profession, but became pregnant again. In 2010 she had her second child, so she wanted to take a break devote himself entirely to his family.

Along the way, life took even more turns because after her success posing nude in Playboy, she spotted an opportunity on the OnlyFans platform that went viral for showing porn content featuring women posing nude.

Trained by Batata Clerc

Ashley Harkleroad was meant to be one of the great tennis players of the United States. It just so happens that during the 90’s I was a child prodigy in the sport and everything was on its way to a great professional era.

In 2002 she was coached by the Argentine Jose Luis Clerc, who was the one who accompanied her in her early years on the WTA circuit. However, a wound and some Wrong choices about her career has frustrated everything imagined about her.

Her beauty has led her to be tempted by the playboy magazinein which she was seen on the cover and was seen openly displaying her full body, and her name was linked to that decision.

Thus, it became the first professional tennis player to pose nude. In addition, he had 213 victories, eight titles and became world number 39 in January 2007. All until his name was linked to Playboy. In any case, no regrets.

In a letter posted on the site Behind the racketthe tennis player told her story.

In it, she not only reflects on what it meant to her to be featured in the popular publication (“My Playboy cover highlights my tennis career and shows my free spirit,” she said), but also the problems facing a young woman trying to enter the professional world of tennissuch as eating disorders, personal relationships and borderline situations with contracts.

“At just 14 I was already the best tennis player in my country. At 15, I turned pro and signed a five-year contract with Nike. At age 16 she was No. 3 in the Junior world. At 17, I made it to the final at Roland Garros Junior and won a $50,000 Challenger,” she said.

And he added: “At 18 I was number 39 in the WTA rankings. Subsequently, I tore the ligament in my elbow, I decided to avoid surgery and I took six months off for the wound to heal, the only solution It was Since the age of 13 I had treated tennis as if it were a job, now I looked burnt and in a dark place.”

At that time, young people developed an eating disorder.

“I didn’t know how to handle the pressure of the tour, my expectations have doubled thanks to my family, my team and my managers. When I took that break, I didn’t even freeze my ranking, so I went from the top 50 to the top 200. Eight months later, I felt mentally and physically strong to play again” he said in another heartbreaking paragraph.

Finally, Ashley Harkleroad retired in 2012. Today, she has two children.