Who is Ashley Harkleroad

is an American tennis player. Her pictures appeared in Playboy Magazine in August 2008.

After losing a tennis match to Serena Williams in May 2008 at the French Open, Ashley Harkleroad told reporters she would appear in the August 2008 issue of Playboy. In an on the air interview, broadcast during the 2008 Wimbledon Championships, Ashley Harkleroad stated that Amanda Beard's 2007 pictorial was partly an inspiration for her own. She appeared as the cover girl of the Playboy magazine, as well as in a four page full frontal nude pictorial, thus becoming the first professional tennis player to pose for Playboy.