Venus Williams has been called the "Lady Gaga of tennis" by the British media, after her tummy-revealing, canary-yellow top and flesh-coloured underwear on-court outfit caused a stir at the Australian Open yesterday.The American World No.5 told the media her attire was inspired by Alice in Wonderland and she had wanted to create a "surprise in a tennis dress", an ambition easily achieved by the lattice-like top, which brought to mind the criss-crosses of pastry atop an apple pie.
"Yeah, don't laugh. But it's kind of about a surprise, because when Alice goes down the hole, the rabbit hole, she finds all these things that are so surprising," Williams said.
"This outfit is about having a surprise in tennis a dress, and kind of, you know, showing some skin and then just having a print. Prints don't happen that often in tennis. So it's called the Wonderland dress. It was fun."
Many fans thought they had gone down a rabbit hole when Williams revealed the outfit at the start of her three-hour slog against a dogged Sandra Zahlavova on Rod Laver Arena yesterday afternoon.
English cricketer Graeme Swann said Williams "looks like a cheese and onion slice" and that it "could easily be the worst outfit ever seen on a tennis court".
Other called it "eye-popping", said it "had a touch of the temporary plastic fencing you see at building sites" and "looked like a mix between [the] Solid Gold Dancers and Edward Scissorhands".
Time magazine said her namesake, the Roman goddess of love and beauty, "was probably vomiting in the heavens".
The Sun asked: "Had someone who didn't like her gone at it with a pair of scissors? Is there a mirror in her hotel room?"
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