The tennis community did not hesitate to fill his comments with praise and gratitude. Nearly the entire country of his sport responded with a wave of support. “Thanks for being so brave. It\u2019s very inspiring to see ourselves represented,” one wrote. Another added, “Takes a lot of courage! Proud of you.” A third said, “So proud of you! A big, difficult, but important step.”<\/p>\n
Players joined in too. Kathinka von Deichmann reacted with a heart-hands emoji and clapping hands. Tennis and padel creator Jalena Meyer also posted hallelujah hands and claps.<\/p>\n
Brunold is still in the early stages of his career on the court. His most recent ATP-level performance was at the Swiss Indoors Basel in October, where he was defeated in a three-set qualifying match by Reilly Opelka. So far in 2025, he has earned $52,733, with no ATP-level victories yet, although he has achieved most of his career success on the ITF circuit.<\/p>\n
This season, his Challenger record stands at 19\u201318. He secured several ITF titles in Antalya, Muttenz, and Caslano, crafting a long-term track record similar to many late-blooming clay court specialists. Besides Basel, his only ATP main-draw appearance in 2025 was at his home tournament in Gstaad, where he was defeated by Francesco Passaro.<\/p>\n
Across all surfaces, he has a 12\u201312 record on clay and a 7\u20136 record on hard courts in 2025, with indoor play matching his hard-court record. His overall career Challenger index is just below .500. Brunold concluded his post by thanking those who helped him gain the confidence to speak freely.<\/p>\n
“I’m deeply grateful for everyone who supported me. Without you, I would never be the person I am today,” he wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The tennis community did not hesitate to fill his comments with praise and gratitude. Nearly the entire country…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,73174,22405,179150,179149,179148,85,747,6414],"class_list":{"0":"post-317529","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-coming-out","11":"tag-lgbtq","12":"tag-lgbtq-athletes","13":"tag-mika-brunold","14":"tag-other-sports-section","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-tennis","17":"tag-tennis-section"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}