Serena Williams has been banned from wearing her "Blank Panther" inspired catsuit at the French Open in future. Williams turned heads at the 2018 tournament earlier this summer by wearing the outfit in her first major competition after giving birth.
But in a new interview, the president of the French Tennis Association's president Bernard Giudicelli told Tennis Magazine that the tournament will now have a dress code because he believes "sometimes we've gone too far." He singled out Williams' bodysuit, explaining that it "will no longer be accepted," according to the Associated Press.
"One must respect the game and the place," Giudicelli said, adding that while the French Open will "impose certain limits," its rules won't be as strict as Wimbledon's where players must wear all white."
A lot of uniforms for the 2019 French Open have already been designed, but Giudicelli said tournament officials will ask designers if they can review them ahead of time.
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