Nadal wins 13 times Roland Garros

Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal defeated the first racket of the world Novak Djokovic in the final match of Roland Garros in France, Interfax reports.

The score is 6: 0, 6: 2, 7: 5 in favor of the Spaniard.

The players played the final match for 2 hours and 43 minutes. As a result, Nadal won the championship 13 times.

Tennis fashion. How athletes’ clothes changed at the Wimbledon Championships

In the early years of tennis, the uniform was rather uncomfortable. Thus, the first champion of the Wimbledon tournament in 1884, Maud Watson, won her title in a skirt with a bustle and a man’s straw hat. Even earlier, women played in flannel and twill costumes, and sometimes even in furs.
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Lottie Dod, the youngest Wimbledon champion, already wore mid-calf skirts that were part of her school uniform.
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In 1905, American Mae Sutton allowed herself to go out on the court with her sleeves rolled up. Nonetheless, petticoats and corsets remained part of the women’s tennis uniform until World War I.
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After the war, Suzanne Lenglen became the trendsetter in tennis fashion. Thanks to her, knee-length skirts and short sleeves have become established in women’s tennis. In addition, after Lenglen, headscarves came into fashion.
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A little later, Helen Wills introduced eye protection visors, similar to those used in golf, into fashion.
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In the late 1930s, shorts began to replace skirts in women’s tennis, and long trousers in men’s tennis.
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Tennis fashion in the first decades after World War II was largely dictated by former tennis player and tennis judge, couturier Ted Tinling. He designed costumes for Maria Bueno
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And Martina Navratilova. Tennis skirts are becoming the usual length for us.
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Tennis player Anna White at the 1986 Wimbledon Championships.
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Tennis fashion. How athletes’ clothes changed at the Wimbledon Championships

In the early years of tennis, the uniform was rather uncomfortable. Thus, the first champion of the Wimbledon tournament in 1884, Maud Watson, won her title in a skirt with a bustle and a man’s straw hat. Even earlier, women played in flannel and twill costumes, and sometimes even in furs.
© Public domain

Lottie Dod, the youngest Wimbledon champion, already wore mid-calf skirts that were part of her school uniform.
© Public domain

In 1905, American Mae Sutton allowed herself to go out on the court with her sleeves rolled up. Nonetheless, petticoats and corsets remained part of the women’s tennis uniform until World War I.
© Public domain

After the war, Suzanne Lenglen became the trendsetter in tennis fashion. Thanks to her, knee-length skirts and short sleeves have become established in women’s tennis. In addition, after Lenglen, headscarves came into fashion.
© Public domain

A little later, Helen Wills introduced eye protection visors, similar to those used in golf, into fashion.
© Commons.wikimedia.org / Bundesarchiv

In the late 1930s, shorts began to replace skirts in women’s tennis, and long trousers in men’s tennis.
© Public domain

Tennis fashion in the first decades after World War II was largely dictated by former tennis player and tennis judge, couturier Ted Tinling. He designed costumes for Maria Bueno
© www.globallookpress.com

And Martina Navratilova. Tennis skirts are becoming the usual length for us.
© www.globallookpress.com

Tennis player Anna White at the 1986 Wimbledon Championships.
© Commons.wikimedia.org / Carine06

On the eve of the Polish tennis player Iga Schwientek won the French Open.

Earlier it was reported that Russian woman Alina Charaeva lost the final of the junior Roland Garros.