Ashley Harkleroad

Ashley Harkleroad

Stats

Measurements: 30-24-34
Height: 5'5"
Date of birth: 5/2/1985
Eye color: Brown
Hair Color: Blonde
Ethnicity: American
Job: tennis player


Bio

Ashley Harkleroad is an American tennis player. Born in Rossville, Georgia, Harkleroad reached a career-high ranking of No. 39 on June 9, 2003. As of May 2009 she isn't currently playing as she recently had a child. Her career prize money to date is $1,009,244[1] Harkleroad was the first WTA Tennis Player to pose naked for the Mens Magazine Playboy.

Harkleroad started playing tennis at age four. She is currently coached by Chuck Adams and formerly coached by José Luis Clerc and Jay Berger. Her father, Danny, works in the printing industry and played college football at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga. Her mother, Tammy, is a school teacher, and played college tennis at Freed-Hardeman University in Henderson, Tennessee. Ashley got the nickname 'Pebbles' while living in Flintstone, Georgia, a small town that has one traffic light. She lists her tennis aspiration as becoming a Top 10 pro with an eye on No.1[1]. Ashley married ATP pro Alex Bogomolov, Jr. in December 2004 but they divorced in October 2006. She is currently engaged to former ATP Pro Chuck Adams. During US Open coverage on the USA network on August 29, 2008, commentator John McEnroe announced that Harkleroad is pregnant with Adams's child. She gave birth to a son, Charlie on March 30, 2009.

After losing a tennis match to Serena Williams on May 25, 2008 at the French Open, Ashley told reporters she would appear in the August 2008 issue of Playboy, a decision she made while convalescing from ovarian cyst surgery in March, 2008. In an on the air interview, broadcast during the 2008 Wimbledon Championships, Ashley stated that Amanda Beard's 2007 pictorial was partly an inspiration for her own, but that her own layout was more risqué, presumably referring to the fact that her layout depicted full nudity, including pubic hair, while Beard's did not. She later appeared as the cover girl of the magazine, as well as in a four page full frontal nude pictorial, thus becoming the first professional tennis player after Vanessa Menga (Playboy Brazil 2001) to grace the pages of Playboy.


Fun Facts

Was inspired by Amanda Beard's pictorial to pose for Playboy

Plans to return to tennis in early 2010


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