Brian Vahaly is one of those tennis lifers: He’s been playing since the age of two, competing in tournaments since he was seven, was the first All-American tennis player at the University of Virginia, and spent six years on the pro tour, with some big victories over top-10 players. Now 46, he’s the chairman of the board and co-CEO of the United States Tennis Association, which oversees the sport in the US—and, most famously, runs the US Open.

In 2017, Vahaly also became the first-ever male professional tennis player to come out as gay—something he only felt comfortable doing a decade after his retirement from pro tennis. (Since then, only one other pro player has followed in his footsteps: Brazilian Joao Lucas Reis da Silva, currently ranked 229th, came out last December.)

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