The tennis world got a pleasant shock last night as one of the leading stars from the women’s circuit decided to post a video to announce her sexuality to her fans. We’re talking about the Russian number #1 player in women’s singles right now, Daria Kasatkina. After posting her video, the entire community has come out in support of her.
Kasatkina did an interview with someone called Ryan and the latter posted this revelation video on his Twitter handle called @Some1NamedRyan. Here, he was seen talking to Kasatkina about many subjects, the main one being the fact that she’s a homosexual and that she currently has a girlfriend as well.
Daria Kasatkina comes out as gay
Later in the day, she even took to her own Instagram account where she has 210k+ followers, to post a picture with her girlfriend. She posted the picture with Olympic athlete and her girlfriend, Natalia Zabiiako. The Russian-Estonian has participated in world events like the Winter Olympics and she now represents Canada.
The photo was accompanied with a purple heart in the caption and several fellow colleague from the women’s tour replied with congratulatory comments and hearts. These included Amanda Anisimova, Daria Saville, and others. She said that the decision to come out of the closet happened after Russian football striker Nadya Karpova came out as well.
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The conversation then went on to talk about how being gay in Russia comes with several difficulties, and how the subject is considered taboo in the country. She said that being straight is the easiest thing in the world and that it would probably never be considered okay to hold hands in public in a country like Russia.
But the 25-year old also said that continuing to live in the closet was impossible for her. Until you come out, people tend to be too focussed on living in the closet but living in peace with yourself is the most important. She ended the video by saying, “Fuck everyone else”, not in English of course. See Kasatkina’s video interview here:
Daria Kasatkina speaks about the difficulties of being gay in Russia pic.twitter.com/guNLUStx17
— Ryan (@Some1NamedRyan) July 18, 2022
Several users on Twitter also called Kasatkina brave and there was a lot of respect and love flowing out to her on social media. A number of athletes and Russian celebrities are moving out of the country because of the political tensions in the country, and the primitive laws that they have. Kasatkina herself has been living in Barcelona since the last few years.
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