A French tennis player took nine months away from the sport this year and used that time to have a boob job, despite being warned she would not be able to play again
Oceane Dodin believes she is the first professional tennis player to have a boob job. The one-time WTA Tour winner took a nine-month hiatus from the sport and underwent the procedure during that time.
Dodin, 28, has earned £2.1 million in prize money throughout her career and reached a career-high ranking of world No. 46 in 2017. However, the French ace saw her ranking tumble to 363 as she took a break from the season to address an ear issue that had been troubling her for ten years, which also caused vertigo.
This pause provided the perfect opportunity to tick off some personal goals that the hectic tennis schedule usually doesn’t permit, including her breast enhancement. In a chat with RMC Sport, she revealed: “It’s something I’ve wanted to do for a long time.”
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“It’s true that I took advantage of this break because I told myself that since you have to stop about two months after the operation, when you’re in the season, it’s not possible. So I said to myself, ‘if I’m going to stop for six months, I might as well do what I want’.
“And then I prefer to do it now than at 40, when I’ll have finished my career. I’m very happy to have done it, I don’t regret it at all, and it doesn’t bother me.”
Despite being thrilled with her decision, Dodin received warnings about how it could affect her career. She shared: “Everyone told me: ‘You’re not going to be able to play,’ as if I had put on watermelons (laughs).
“They’re not small, but that doesn’t bother me when I play. There are adapted bras.
“Simona Halep [who had a breast reduction while playing as a junior], but they were very, very big. That handicapped her.
“But yes, it’s true that I must be the first to play with breast augmentations; there has to be a first for everything.” Dodin has now returned to competitive tennis and secured a quarter-final spot at the W35 Reims 2025 tournament.
She took careful precautions before going under the knife to guarantee her tennis wouldn’t suffer. “He’s a friend, so he knows me very well,” she explained about her surgeon.
“I talked about it a lot with him, where to put the prosthetics so they wouldn’t bother me, how to wear a bra for support, etc. Those are girly things, but everything was planned.
“I asked him and he told me it wouldn’t bother me. If he had told me otherwise, I wouldn’t have done it.”
Dodin harbours hopes of competing in the Australian Open qualifiers next year, having previously reached the fourth round of the Grand Slam. Qinwen Zheng defeated her in straight sets, though it represented her finest showing at one of tennis’s four major championships.
Dodin has progressed to the second round of the French Open twice, in 2017 and 2023, and got to the same stage at the US Open in 2015 and 2017. She has also advanced to the first round at Wimbledon on three occasions, in 2017, 2022, and 2024.