Canadian tennis brilliant Eugenie Bouchard able austere abuse from adjudicator Louise Engzell admitting breaking Wimbledon’s dress code.
The 21-year-old, who accomplished the final of aftermost year’s Wimbledon, wore a atramentous bra whose band was calmly arresting during her women’s singles aboriginal annular defeat to China’s Ying-Ying Duan in London on Tuesday.
Engzell arrested to see if Bouchard had burst the dress cipher but did not booty activity adjoin the World No.12. Wimbledon’s dress cipher states that players charge dress in ‘almost absolutely white’ during aggressive matches at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club.
When asked by sportsmail if she knew that her bra band had acquired concern, Bouchard replied, “I was not acquainted of that at all and no one told me annihilation about my bra.”
The rules accompaniment that “competitors charge be dressed in acceptable tennis accoutrements that is about absolutely white and this applies from the point at which the amateur enters the cloister surround”.
Duan defeated Bouchard 7-6(3), 6-4. Bouchard has now absent nine of her aftermost 11 games.
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