Who Is Allowed to Go on the Women's Tour? The New Gender Issue in Tennis

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With new genetic tests, the WTA Tour aims to ensure fairness – and thus triggers a debate around the US Open. Why the tennis stars are willing to take sex tests and why others want to abolish them again.

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New genetic tests ensure discussions in tennis around the US Open. Players must prove that they are allowed to play on the women's tour. There is praise and criticism. That's how the debate is going.

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In women's tennis there are genetic tests for the first time. Human rights organisations speak of stigmatisation. What do the players say about the new rule?