I don't understand this....

[starguard]

Tennis Pro Venus Williams can come out on the courts practically naked, and the mediew goes wild. This woman comes out with an oversized logo, and gets slammed for it!

What gives :mmph:

Mon Jan 24 11:08am EST

Tennis player forced to change dresses because of oversized logo
By Chris Chase

A fourth-round match at the Australian Open was delayed on Monday night when the chair umpire determined that a logo on the front of Ekaterina Makarova's shirt was too large and had to be removed. The 22-year-old Russian was warming up before her match against Kim Clijsters when umpire Mariana Alves noticed one of the logos and made Makarova leave the court to change.

When she returned, Makarova had changed into an identical dress that didn't have any attached logos. She began the match without them and then had some attached during changeovers in the first set. The offending logo was eventually moved to her right shoulder.


[Photos: See more of Ekaterina Makarova]


Grand Slam rules dictate that logos on the front of the shirt cannot exceed four square inches. Larger logos are allowed on the sleeves, which is where Makarova's banned logo eventually was placed.

At her post-match press conference, Makarova admitted that she was the one who made the initial error. The Russian told reporters that she put the logo on the front of her shirt but that the incident was "nothing important."

Makarova pushed the third-seeded Clijsters to a first-set tiebreak but only mustered three points. After dropping the tiebreak, the 49th-ranked Russian appeared to self-destruct in losing the final set 6-2.

Here's a before and after shot of Makarova's logo fiasco:

before



after

link: http://sports.yahoo.com/tennis/blog...ed-to-change-dresses-because-o?urn=ten-311645

 

[starguard]

This is how Venus Williams plays...



and no one seems to mind

 

[eloisel]

Ms. Makarova broke a Grand Slam rule - logos on the front of the shirt cannot exceed four square inches. Larger logos are allowed on the sleeves.

There are apparently no rules against bad taste - which is subjective anyway.

 

[Consumer]

I can respect a woman with talent (which Ms. Williams has). I can respect a woman who works hard at her profession (which Ms. Williams does). I can respect a woman who is a little bit brazen (which Ms. Williams appears to be).

And yet, that photo frightens me.

Over compensating?

 

[Ilyanna]

It looks so incredibly photoshopped that it's probably the real deal. Which is, in fact, frightening, I'm with you on this.

 

[SuN]

This is how Venus Williams plays...



and no one seems to mind

lol wtf is that!! who wears that just try on, let alone wear it on a tennis court BWAHAHAHA

I'm a big fan of teh cute little tennis dresses they were all wearing back when kornikova was single & tarting it up.

She was hawt....I was in a lift with her and agassi one ozzi open; she vry cutteh

Mind u i was pinging off my head & hallucinating my tits off on teh old german MDMA...so she would have looked realllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllly beautiful regardless of reality

 

[eloisel]

It makes me want to take off all my clothes and put on a mu-mu and flip-flops, take out my partials, twist my hair up in a knot and pin it to the back of my head with a barrette that has lost the top decoration so it is bare and gleaming silver, dangle a lit cigarette that is mostly ash from my lips, and lean over a greasy hamburger loaded with onions and mayonnaise. Oh yeah, and I want my glasses to be slung around my neck, attached to a necklace made of some faded aquamarine colored plastic beads. Then, I want to die and have the local police go to my house and find my naked male Real Doll bent over touching his toes inside my closet under an old chenille robe decorated with a plumed peacock and a purple jewel for an eye.

 

[Consumer]

Anna...

And finally, one of her at "work".

 

[SuN]

 

[eloisel]

It looks like to me he is checking to see if the little thing is still tucked in there properly.

 

[jack]

Amazing, another tennis thread that has absolutely nothing to do with tennis.

 

[eloisel]

Consumer: If "he" looked like that, I'd consider it.

Oh, I'd change bodies with her anyday. She's young, very fit, can wear that itty bitty teeny weenie yellow bikini, etc. She's just a tad straight up and down in the mid-section that's all.