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I meet tennis. I see French republic. Is Venus wearing underpants?

Sorry, simply it had to be said. The larger question is whether Venus Williams' peekaboo outfit needed to be worn the other day at the French Open up.

The timing is a little weird, considering she's all the way support to No. 2 in the women's globe rankings and in no danger of going unnoticed. If Venus were vanishing from the scene with a serial of lousy performances, then wearing a pair of nude undershorts beneath a saucy, can-tin dancer clothes might serve a more urgent marketing purpose.

Who knows, though? Venus volition be 30 adjacent calendar month. In the context of the professional athlete, some sort of midlife crisis is way overdue.

For Andre Agassi, that meant trimming his rock-star mane to reveal the balding corporate raider within. Venus may simply be tracking the other way, throwing off the mainstream for something steamier, something on the order of her sister Serena'due south black lycra catsuit at the 2002 U.S. Open.

A search for clues on the website for Venus' signature clothing line, EleVen, turned up these advertizing re-create suggestions. "Be Yourself. Feel Fabulous. Exist Fearless. Feel Confident. Feel Sexy. Be Chic. Feel Powerful."

Wow. After all that, information technology makes you wonder why she didn't add fishnet stockings to the ensemble for Sunday's commencement-circular friction match. If that's too risque for Paris, the Moulin Rouge might just besides accept been in Des Moines.

Many of yous are wondering correct now, why all the fuss? That's because the more than eye-catching photos don't have a place in your morning newspaper. They're out there, though, then, at first glance, is Venus, who in her grade-fitting, skin-tone shorts appears to be flashing photographers with every jump and serve rather than the other manner around.

It's intentional, the deception, and the provocation, likewise.

In January Venus debuted the nude undergarments Downwardly Under, startling the media at the Australian Open. I columnist from Queensland quipped that he had come up to see Venus play a match, non Uranus.

Cheeky, those Aussies, but Venus was undaunted, explaining on her Twitter site, "My dress for the Australian Open up has been one of my best designs ever... I am wearing undershorts the same colour as my skin, so it gives the slits in my apparel the full result."

Her Key Biscayne fashion argument was a little tamer, matching blackness bike shorts to a spaghetti-strap, corset-mode number like to the one she wore at the French Open. No big deal, except for those who modify the channel on Victoria's Secret commercials.

Ah, just whatever comes next, we'll always have Paris, where Venus said her unforgettable outfit was all about "illusion," which she added is "a lot of my motif this year."

Illusions. Sounds similar the proper noun of a gentleman's club in some strip mall, and don't imagine that the gentle folk at the All England Lawn tennis and Croquet Society haven't noticed. They've probably called an emergency session to alter the wearing apparel policy at Wimbledon, where Venus is a v-time champion.

At Wimbledon, France'south Suzanne Lenglen was called "shocking and indecent" in the 1920s for wearing a calf-length, cotton apparel to play, and without a corset, no less.

At Wimbledon in 1949, Gertrude "Gussie" Moran was accused by club officials of bringing "vulgarity and sin into tennis" for wearing a skirt short enough to reveal frilly panties now and once again, the aforementioned manner that 25 years afterward became crashingly, boringly conventional.

The Wimbledon crew recoiled in horror, too, in 1985, when Anne White wore a jumpsuit lycra trunk arrange onto the court. That met the letter of the club's all-white apparel law, but missed the marker on decorum.

What pushed Venus to button the envelope hither with her own made-you-look design?

Is it a cry for attention by a adult female who has seven Grand Slam singles titles but can't catch up to her own sister? Is it a desperate attempt to get Lady Gaga interested in the WTA, thus making women's tennis as hip as the days when Elton John befriended Billie Jean King and dedicated a song to her?

Your judge is as good equally mine, but this is no 15 minutes of fame thing, not with so accomplished an athlete.

More probable Serena dared her to practise it, and soon will have to practise something more than daring in return.

I meet tennis. I encounter France. Must linesmen before long avert their glance?

Source: https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/sports/2010/05/24/commentary-venus-williams-succeeds-in/7596431007/

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