Tennis Players Show Off Fashion at US Open

 

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Tennis players must wear almost all white at Wimbledon. That includes shorts, shirts, hats, dresses, shoes and socks.

But when they get to New York in the late summer for the U.S Open, they let their personalities¹ come out through their clothing.Serena Williams is one player who always wears something special. In 2004, Williams wore calf-high, shiny black Nike tennis shoes.

But this year, Williams is not playing due to her pregnancy².

It turns out other players are taking over the fashion show. On Monday night, Maria Sharapova played in her first major tournament in over a year. She was suspended for taking a banned drug in early 2016.

She impressed the crowd with a shiny black dress. The dress shined because it was embedded⁴ with crystals.

After she won her opening match, she said: “Behind these Swarovski crystals and little black dresses, this girl has a lot of grit⁵ and she's not going anywhere."

Among the male players at the tournament, people are talking about the clothing worn this week by Alexander Zverev from Germany. Zverev was the fourth-ranked player in the tournament. Tennis experts thought he could win the title.

Against Darian King of Barbados, Zverev was wearing a tennis outfit⁶ similar to the one worn by Swedish star Bjorn Borg in the 1970s.

He had a white headband with thin stripes holding back his long hair. He wore a similarly styled shirt and even completed the throwback look with high white socks. Tennis players have not worn those socks since the early 1980s. Zverev said his look was designed by singer Pharrell Williams.

On Twitter, many people talked about the high socks. Some liked them; others did not.

In his next match, however, Zverev lost to Croatia’s Borna Coric.

This time, he was wearing shorter socks.

Maybe that was the difference.

One Twitter user, Jen, definitely thought so.

She wrote: “Zverev clearly should have kept the long socks.”

And that’s What’s Trending Today.

I’m Dan Friedell.

Words in This Story

personality – n. the set of emotional qualities, ways of behaving, etc., that makes a person different from other people

embed³ – v. to place or set (something) firmly in something else

grit – n. mental toughness and courage

throwback – n. a person or thing that is similar to someone or something from the past or that is suited to an earlier time — usually singular

outfit – n. a set of clothes that are worn together

look – n. a style or fashion

1 personalities   

n. 诽谤，（对某人容貌、性格等所进行的）人身攻击； 人身攻击；人格, 个性, 名人( personality的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• There seemed to be a degree of personalities in her remarks.她话里有些人身攻击的成分。
• Personalities are not in good taste in general conversation.在一般的谈话中诽谤他人是不高尚的。

2 pregnancy   

n.怀孕，怀孕期

参考例句：

• Early pregnancy is often accompanied by nausea.怀孕早期常有恶心的现象。
• Smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of miscarriage.怀孕期吸烟会增加流产的危险。

3 embed   

vt.把…嵌(埋、插)入，扎牢；使深留脑中

参考例句：

• The harpoon struck but did not embed.鱼叉击中了但并没有插入。
• This photo showed us how did the root of plant embed the soil deeply.这张照片显示植物的根是如何深入到土壤里去的。

4 embedded   

a.扎牢的

参考例句：

• an operation to remove glass that was embedded in his leg 取出扎入他腿部玻璃的手术
• He has embedded his name in the minds of millions of people. 他的名字铭刻在数百万人民心中。

5 grit   

n.沙粒，决心，勇气；v.下定决心，咬紧牙关

参考例句：

• The soldiers showed that they had plenty of grit. 士兵们表现得很有勇气。
• I've got some grit in my shoe.我的鞋子里弄进了一些砂子。

6 outfit   

n.（为特殊用途的）全套装备，全套服装

参考例句：

• Jenney bought a new outfit for her daughter's wedding.珍妮为参加女儿的婚礼买了一套新装。
• His father bought a ski outfit for him on his birthday.他父亲在他生日那天给他买了一套滑雪用具。