Tennis star with £2.1m earnings turns into first professional to get boob job regardless of warnings
French tennis star Oceane Dodin is the first professional player to undergo a boob job and she has rejected warnings over the impact it could have on her sporting career
Oceane Dodin reckons she is the first tennis pro to have undergone a boob job.
The tennis star recently took nine months off from the sport and took advantage of her absence to go through with the procedure.
Dodin, 28, has racked up £2.1million in prize money during her career and ranked as highly as world No. 46 in 2017.
The Frenchwoman has seen her ranking plummet to 363 as she stepped away from the season to deal with an issue that had plagued her for a decade.
Dodin suffered from an ear problem that resulted in her also being hit by vertigo.
And, it worked out to be the perfect time to tick some things off her personal checklist that the busy tennis calendar doesn’t usually allow, including her breast augmentation.
Speaking to RMC Sport, she said: “It’s something I’ve wanted to do for a long time.
“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.”
Dodin did receive warnings over the impact it could have on her profession, however. She added: “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 made her return to the sport and reached the quarter-final of the W35 Reims 2025 tournament. And she did take some precaution before undergoing the operation to ensure her tennis would not be impacted.
“He’s a friend, so he knows me very well,” she said of the 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 has ambitions to play in the Australian Open qualifiers next year, having previously made the fourth round of the grand slam.
She was knocked out by Qinwen Zheng in straight sets, but it marked her best performance in one of the four major tournaments.
Dodin has twice made the second round of the French Open, in 2017 and 2023, and has reached the same stage of the US Open in 2015 and 2017.
She has reached the first round at Wimbledon three times, in 2017, 2022 and 2024.
