Ashley Harkleroad (born May 2, 1985), is an American tennis player. Born in Rossville, Georgia, Harkleroad reached a career-high ranking of No. 39 on June 9, 2003. Her career prize money to date is $1,022,094.[1] Harkleroad was the first WTA tennis player to pose naked for the American men's magazine Playboy.[2]
Harkleroad started playing tennis at age four.[5] 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 at Chattanooga. Her mother, Tammy, is a school teacher, and played college tennis at Freed-Hardeman University in Henderson, Tennessee. Harkleroad 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] Harkleroad married ATP pro Alex Bogomolov, Jr. in December 2004 but they divorced in October 2006.[5] She is married to former ATP pro Chuck Adams. During US Open coverage on the USA network on August 29, 2008, commentator John McEnroe announced that Harkleroad was pregnant with Adams's child. She gave birth to a son, Charlie on March 30, 2009.[6] On April 5, 2011, she gave birth to their second child, a daughter named Loretta.
After losing a tennis match to Serena Williams on May 25, 2008 at the French Open, Harkleroad 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, Harkleroad stated that Amanda Beard's 2007 pictorial was partly an inspiration for her own, but that her own layout was more risqué by depicting full nudity and pubic hair, while Beard's did not. She appeared as the cover girl of the magazine, as well as in a four page full frontal nude pictorial,[7] thus becoming the first professional tennis player to pose for Playboy. [8]
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