{"id":814774,"date":"2026-07-20T19:28:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T19:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/814774\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T19:28:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T19:28:21","slug":"wta-introduces-gene-testing-for-all-players-on-womens-tennis-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/814774\/","title":{"rendered":"WTA introduces gene testing for all players on women&#8217;s tennis tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ewscrippsbrightspotcdn-768x432.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-2551097 attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Ewscrippsbrightspotcdn\"  \/>Jessica Pegula of the U.S returns the ball as she plays against Czech Republic&#8217;s Linda Noskova during the final match at the WTA 500 Berlin Open tennis tournament at the Steffi Graf Stadium, in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, June 21, 2026. Photo by: Ebrahim Noroozi\/AP Photo<\/p>\n<p>(AP via SCRIPPS NEWS GROUP) \u2013 The Women\u2019s Tennis Association is introducing one-off mandatory gene testing for all players effective from Tuesday \u2013 a requirement to compete at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>The WTA updated its women\u2019s eligibility policy to include gender screening \u201cbased on biological sex\u201d this week \u201cto preserve the integrity of women\u2019s professional tennis and maintain fair competition conditions for all players.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new policy takes the organization in line with the eligibility policy introduced by the International Olympic Committee in March to align with U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s executive order on sports ahead of the 2028 Games.<\/p>\n<p>The new policy takes the organization in line with the eligibility policy introduced by the International Olympic Committee in March to align with U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s executive order on sports ahead of the 2028 Games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this policy, \u2018biological male\u2019 means an individual who, regardless of their legal sex or gender identity, has an SRY gene and therefore has or previously had testes or streak testes; and \u2018biological female\u2019 means an individual who, regardless of their legal sex or gender identity, has no SRY gene and therefore has or previously had ovaries or streak ovaries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this policy, \u2018biological male\u2019 means an individual who, regardless of their legal sex or gender identity, has an SRY gene and therefore has or previously had testes or streak testes; and \u2018biological female\u2019 means an individual who, regardless of their legal sex or gender identity, has no SRY gene and therefore has or previously had ovaries or streak ovaries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jessica Pegula of the U.S returns the ball as she plays against Czech Republic&#8217;s Linda Noskova during the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-814774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}