The third Grand Slam of Tennis and Style is starting today in London
The curtain rises on the 138th edition of the Wimbledon tournament. On the grass fields of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club of Wimbledon, 256 players will compete, of these 64 standard heads. This year, for the first time, there are eleven Italian players in the male competition in addition to the most famous Jannik Sinner, Matteo Berrettini And Lorenzo Musettipromising names such as Bellucci and Darderi and Nardi also descend on the English herb. As for women, there are four blue: Jasmine Paolini, Lucia bronzetti, Martina Trevisan And Sara Errani.
Third great appointment of the circuit supervised by the ITF -International Tennis Federation, after Melbourne and Paris, the London tournament has never been only tennis fin since 1877, when the organizers decided that the players should mainly dress white leaders To avoid showing halos and sweat stains. Hence the Tennis white concept which, as specified by the rules of the tournament, is not off-world or cream.
An imposition that everyone did not like: André Agassi refused to play in London until 1991 because of the dress code. And for the record, in his first appearance, in 1992, he brought the trophy salad bowl to Goran Ivanišević home with a score of 6-7, 6-4, 1-6, 6-4. In 2009 Roger Federer, on the other hand, dared to take the field with Nike from the Fluo soleimmediate reaction of the judges and what about Sinner? In 2023, the South Tyrolean He had to ask for the permit A al to ITF, at the ATP-Association of Tennis Professionals and also to the organizers of Wimbledon In order to bring the Gucci bag to the field of which he had become Ambassador.
Temple of an effortless chic elegance, has always been very careful also to the choice of its partners starting from RolexOfficial Timekeeper since 1978, and from IBMwhich since 1990 has guided the digital transformation of the tournament and which this year introduced Match Chat, the interactive assistant capable of answering fans’s questions during the single games.
Not only that, if Babolat It is confirmed as official partner for ropes, rackets, bags and shoes, while the balls are the prerogative of Slazenger Since the beginning of the twentieth century and this year more than 54 thousand are supplied in London, the tennis’ clothing has been selected according to the sponsors of each – Sinner and Alcaraz dress Nike, Berrettini wears boss And Djokovic Lacostejust to name a few-while all the on-court staff, from the judges to the gruesome, strictly wears Ralph Lauren pole.
And in the stands? Officially The Dress Code is Smart Casualhowever, over the years there has been no lack of controversy so much so that in 2015 the then twice F1 world champion, Lewis Hamilton He was bounced by the Royal Box for introducing themselves dressed in too eccentricly and above all without jacket and tie! Four years after the same Meghan MarkleHarry’s Duchess of Sussex and wife, was left out for wearing a pair of jeans. Outside the real stage, however, the rules are less iron but be careful, No flip flops, no xl hats And No too showy logosthe British do not forgive.
