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Bruce BostwickTennis Girls Gone Wild
July 17th 2008 03:00
If you can’t be known for your tennis, you might as well be known for something. Well, that’s kind of the motto for Ashley Harkleroad who will appear in the August edition of Playboy magazine, which hits newsstands on Friday.
True tennis fans will know who Harkleroad is. She is an 8-year pro from the United States, consistently ranked in the Top 100, but has no wins on the WTA Tour. Because of that, the casual tennis fan may have never heard of the 23-year old. Maybe because of the talent of the women’s game, she never did reach her full potential as she was once supposed to be one of the hottest young stars around.
Interesting to note that she is the first tennis star to ever pose for the magazine. But several prominent athletes have posed in the past, including Katarina Witt and Gabrielle Reese among others.
Being a family-friendly site, we won’t be able to show the photos here, but rest assured, come Friday I’m sure they will make there way to the World Wide Web somehow. The question is, will this really help Playboy or Harkleroad? To me, getting someone like Maria Sharapova would help Playboy, but not Sharapova. I think this one is going to help Harkleroad more than it helps Playboy, at least in terms of name recognition, and maybe it helps her establish a career beyond tennis. After all, her career in tennis is going nowhere.
Twenty-three-year-old tennis player Ashley Harkleroad will appear nude in the August edition of Playboy Magazine, which hits the newsstands on Friday
Interesting to note that she is the first tennis star to ever pose for the magazine. But several prominent athletes have posed in the past, including Katarina Witt and Gabrielle Reese among others.
Being a family-friendly site, we won’t be able to show the photos here, but rest assured, come Friday I’m sure they will make there way to the World Wide Web somehow. The question is, will this really help Playboy or Harkleroad? To me, getting someone like Maria Sharapova would help Playboy, but not Sharapova. I think this one is going to help Harkleroad more than it helps Playboy, at least in terms of name recognition, and maybe it helps her establish a career beyond tennis. After all, her career in tennis is going nowhere.
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