She no longer needs a full-length outfit for health reasons and won’t be wearing it again at the U.S. Open.
Williams downplayed concerns that were caused this week when the French Tennis Federation president said in Tennis Magazine that the outfit Williams wore this year in Paris would no longer be accepted.
Williams wasn’t just trying to make a fashion statement when she wore the outfit that she called her “Wakanda-inspired catsuit,” referring to the fictional nation in the film “Black Panther.”
The full-length leggings were for health reasons. In what was her first Grand Slam tournament since giving birth to her daughter last Sept.