Ashley Harkleroad is the first tennis player to appear on the pages of Playboy magazine! It comes out on the13th of July - it’s the August 2008 issue!  The 23-year old tennis star she was recovering from surgery to remove a cyst from her ovaries when the men’s magazine approached her with an offer and she took it!

[Harkeroad] She may have been defeated by Serena Williams at the French Open on Sunday, but Ashley Harkleroad claimed a more glamorous coup over her American rival — by appearing on the pages of Playboy magazine.

 ”I thought, well, I’m not really doing anything right now so I thought about it and it was something that I did. I’m proud of my body. I was representing a female athlete’s body.” – UK Reuter