Despite the stuffiness, SW19 is still the home of great (and sometimes rebellious) tennis style
Unless Carlos Alcaraz has hatched a plot to smuggle in a monogrammed LV duffle fresh from the Paris atelier, then the most notable Style Moment of thefortnight will have likely occurred on the tournament’s opening Monday, when Jannik Sinner, the men’s world number eight; a brilliant red-headed Italian 21-year-old with a monster forehand, the angular cheekbones of a model, and the cooly-focused gaze of an apex predator, strolled onto Centre Court with a custom Gucci kitbag slung over his...
Known for its stringent and polarising dress code , it turns out that Gucci and Sinner’s team had met with the International Tennis Federation, Association of Tennis Professionals and Wimbledon to ensure that the bag met a certain set of mystery criteria .on his headline-grabbing role in bringing a bit of Florentine high luxury into tennis’s grand cathedral, Sinner said, “I wanted the bag to be comfortable to carry and have enough to keep all my stuff inside.
When Roger Federer was at his most imperious, he took to wearing monogrammed cardigans, white trousers and belted shorts on court— a look that would have been seen as totally ridiculous if it wasn’t for the fact that he was putting his opponents through a blender in each round.Even Federer, a diplomatic Swiss statesman to the very end, lashed out at the enforcement of all white when, back in 2015, he was punished for the terrible crime of wearing tennis shoes with orange soles.
"I love Wimbledon,” he said, “but they've gone too far now. The rules have become ridiculously strict. I would be in favour of loosening it up a little bit. But it is what it is.”It is what it is. Wimbledon will never budge, and players will continue to find ways of sprinkling in their own personal style amongst the clean classicism of the tournament… or at least work out how to bring a really nice kit bag on court with the help of the ITF, the ATP, and the power of Gucci.
That tension, the old, the new, and the intractable, is what makes Wimbledon the best, and best-dressed, tournament in tennis.
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