Oceane Dodin, the professional tennis player, has claimed to be the first in her field to undergo a breast augmentation. The French starlet took a nine-month break from the sport, during which she underwent the procedure.
Dodin, 28, has amassed a career prize fund of £2.1million and reached a peak ranking of world No. 46 in 2017. However, an ear issue that had plagued her for a decade, causing vertigo, saw her ranking plummet to 363 as she took time out to address it.
This hiatus offered the perfect chance to achieve some personal ambitions that the demanding tennis schedule usually prohibits, including her breast enhancement. Speaking to RMC Sport, she confessed: “It’s something I’ve wanted to do for a long time.”
She added: “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 overjoyed with her decision, Dodin was warned about how it could impact her career.
The tennis ace revealed: “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 competitive tennis and reached the quarter-final stage at the W35 Reims 2025 tournament. She took meticulous precautions before undergoing the procedure to ensure her tennis career wouldn’t be affected.
“He’s a friend, so he knows me very well,” she revealed 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 is targeting a place in the Australian Open qualifiers next year, having previously made it through to the fourth round of the Grand Slam. Qinwen Zheng beat her in straight sets, though it marked her best performance at one of tennis’s four major tournaments.
Dodin has made it to the second round of the French Open on two occasions, in 2017 and 2023, and reached the same stage at the US Open in 2015 and 2017. She has also made it through to the first round at Wimbledon on three separate occasions, in 2017, 2022, and 2024.