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WTA Introduces Ranking Protection for Feminine Tennis Gamers Freezing Eggs: How Will This Work?

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June 14, 2025
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WTA Introduces Ranking Protection for Feminine Tennis Gamers Freezing Eggs: How Will This Work?
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In an empowering transfer, the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) has formally carried out rating safety for ladies’s tennis gamers who pursue fertility remedies, together with egg or embryo freezing.

The pioneering coverage ensures that gamers can prioritize household planning with out threatening their careers or rating.

New WTA Rule Supports Fertility Treatments

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According to The Guardian, the WTA will now allow any participant ranked among the many high 750 to carry a protected rating in case they’re out for over 10 weeks due to fertility remedies. This transfer is supposed to ease the stress on gamers to return to the courtroom unexpectedly and threat their well being for the love of competitors.

Sloane Stephens, the 2017 US Open winner and vocal proponent of athletes’ reproductive well being, welcomed the change. Stephens, who introduced that she had had egg freezing achieved twice, spoke about how the dearth of safety affected her therapeutic and efficiency.

“So having the protected ranking there, so that players don’t feel forced to come back early and risk their health again, is the best thing possible.”
Stephens advised BBC Sport.

How Will Ranking Protection Work

A protected rating will likely be computed in a specifically protected class below this coverage primarily based on a participant’s imply rank within the final 12 weeks earlier than his or her absence.

Protected gamers can make the most of such a standing to enter a most of three tournaments inside 10 weeks of his or her return. This exemption, nevertheless, doesn’t embrace WTA 1000 occasions, for the reason that affiliation prefers gamers to have procedures achieved throughout quieter intervals.

Portia Archer, WTA Chief Executive, talked concerning the significance of the player-driven initiative, saying that they wish to help athletes in resolving the dilemma of optimum fertility coinciding with optimum sporting efficiency.

Grants and Maternity Leave More Empower Women

In addition to rating safety, the WTA has added cash grants to cowl the expense of fertility procedures. Further, since early 2024, the group has supplied maternity go away pay, 12 months’ advantages, to over 320 certified gamers, impartial of rating.

It builds on the momentum begun with the 2019 rule revision, enabling new moms to make the most of their previous rankings to compete in 12 tournaments inside three years of giving start. These modifications proof the WTA’s general dedication to empowering girls athletes alongside motherhood and fertility paths.

Athletes Welcome the Initiative

Madison Keys, the Australian Open winner, hailed the change as “absolutely amazing,” saying it brings gamers confidence and reassurance in dealing with household planning.

German star Tatjana Maria, additionally a mom of two, greeted the change however known as on the WTA to maintain enhancing sensible assist for moms on tour, like improved lodge quarters and entry at occasions.

WTA Joins a Growing Trend in Sports

The WTA is being adopted by different progressive organizations such because the WNBA, which supplies as much as $60,000 in fertility-related procedures, together with egg freezing, as reimbursements. Top sportswomen resembling England cricket captain Nat Sciver-Brunt and netball icon Geva Mentor have additionally spoken publicly about their fertility journeys, doing a lot to de-stigmatize reproductive well being for athletes.

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