It’s easy to forget now because it happened two very long weeks ago, but Serena Williams arrived at the 2018 United States Open already wronged.
Bernard Giudicelli, the president of the French Tennis Federation, which puts on the French Open, had just vowed to ban outfits like the great, black, full-body compression suit, with short sleeves and an arresting red waistband, that Williams had worn there in the spring.
“You have to respect the game and the place,” Giudicelli told Tennis Magazine. It was a complaint so vague as to say nothing about what comprised disrespect.