... but what was probably the boldest outfit stemmed from the men's fashion. We've all seen Martina Navratilova dashing around the courts in men's shorts, but Tatiana Golovin from France took it up a notch... or two.
Although the 16-year-old was dismissed by Serena in the quarterfinals, she was dismissed in cheeky style wearing a hipster hotpants that barely covered the essentials “hipster hotpants sat dangerously low”;
Golovin is precociously aware of her pulling power. Why else would she wear the slinkiest hotpants seen on the SW19 grass or bother to roll down the top of her tennis skirt and sew it into place to show off more midriff? Predictably, she does not want to be seen as another Anna Kournikova. “I hope first of all that people come to watch the tennis. Then, you know, if the physical . . . that’s their choice,” she said. If Golovin fulfils her potential, then perhaps the only thing that she will have in common with Kournikova is that she was born in Moscow and attended the Bollettieri academy in Florida — where she played with Maria Sharapova — from a young age. 
“When I was little, I lost to her all the time love and love and one and one,” Golovin, who was beaten by the 17-year-old Russian — no longer a friend — in the final of the DFS Classic in Birmingham three weeks ago, said. “But I think now I’m catching up.”
Comments