Following disturbing accounts of WTA players claiming that they often had to take pills in order to skip their periods and avoid the anxiety of potentially bleeding through their pure white outfits at Wimbledon, the Grand Slam has decided to slightly relax the strict clothing rules and allow women to wear darker shorts underneath their garments.
Daria Saville, Monica Puig and Heather Watson have all brought to attention the added stress women’s tennis players have when their menstrual flow happens during Wimbledon.
Earlier this year, Daria Saville revealed in an interview with The Daily Aus:
I myself had to skip my period around Wimbledon for the reason that I didn’t want to worry about bleeding through, as we already have enough other stress.