Can you imagine a stage on which the latest designs are displayed and put through their paces? I can, and this stage as it so happens is called the tennis court.
For every grand slam a large part of the news spends a great deal focusing on what the players will be wearing (what style is it; the falcon, or the eagle Mr Djokovic?) or who has been lucky enough to design a dress with mesh panelling.
It is not merely the athletic horses that we focus on, rather it broadens to what to wear to the tennis, how to wear the latest styles and be sun-smart, and for a while there, the colour of the hard courts.
For an extended time, the Australian Open courts tried to imitate a grassy green colour, but then suggestions emerged to paint the courts blue which to some conservatives out there at the time seemed as outrageous as painting the town red.
The change has not been too bad, in fact it makes the ball more easily seen, plus it helps that it happens to sharpen up the image and appearance of what our Melbourne Park come the middle of January look like; fashionable.
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