Yesterday's game would have made Ted Tinling proud, the man who for four decades was synonymous with female sports fashion and scandal on Wimbledon's grass.Serena Williams stood on the track with grid socks, in the nth challenge to strict monochromatic rules of the All England Lawn Tennis Club.And his rival defeated in three sets, the Italian ** Camila Giorgi ** (who has once honored the most controversial creations of the great firing female tennis), opted for a tiny skirt and full of morivos in Puntilla.

It is another chapter in the war that players maintain with a club that continues to retain rules as strict as tradition -based ridiculous.And that Serena skipped for medical reasons: the player, who almost dies giving birth to her daughter Olympia, accumulates several circulation problems that put her health at risk, on the track or outside of it.His recurring thrombus have already caused several embolisms, and his walks to the operating room have already discovered several giant bruises.Serena Williams, who advances to the championship like a hurricane, needs to play with compression fabrics.

And the standard establishes that the players' medical equipment can be of a color other than the target if there is no other alternative.The alternative, in this case, was a version of the garment most hated by Wimbledon: the Catsuit, an adjusted monkey that Ted Tinling first took Wimbledon in 1985.

And that Serena adapted for Roland Garros, her return to the Open, where she had to leave in the round of Maria Sharapova for a muscular problem.Serena has already warned that you may have to play the rest of her career with some form of compression tissues.In Paris he wore a "inspired in Wakanda" superhero, in reference to Marvel Black Panther.

But Wimbledon has been a wonderful statement of principles.Above all now that Serena has just taken her own fashion collection, and that she has been opposing any preview and pre -established behavior for a tennis player for years.The Williams, in general, carry from the beginning of their long races facing a world too white, too strict, in which the WTA and associations such as the All England Tennis Club try that everything remains Victorian and strict and, they already know:white.Serena, specifically, has planted each person in the world "ignorant enough to not understand the power of a black woman".

Serena Williams is the last step in the liberation of female tennis, which began many decades ago before the look of a young fan, Ted Tinling.An exact two -meter kid who, at 17, during a vacation in Nice in 1927, received an invitation from his idola Suzanne Lengalen (then the great tennis star) to arbitrate one of his matches.A party that would become two years of living tennis from within (until he tried to be a tennis player, without luck) and, from there, in a vibrant career in sports fashion.

For 11 years, from 1927 to 1949, Tinling became the link between the All England Club and the players.At the same time that he opened his own workshop and that he received requests from the players to become the only man capable of understanding what the tennis players wanted (well, we are belittling other great Pierre Balmain, but follow me the current: Tinling was thefirst, the longest and best).Along the way, he had to devote himself to espionage as a colonel of British intelligence services in the African Front and in the European.And who, regardless of the services to the homeland, Wimbledon fulminately dismissed in 1949.For being openly gay, as another war hero, Alan Turing?No, for letting ** Gusie Moran ** show the puff pages.

Tinling not only fired.They denied the entrance to the central track until three decades later.And Tinling, already with an atelier in downtown London who was the reference of tennis fashion for decades, avenged in the best possible way: dressing the winners with increasingly daring designs for the strict Wimbledonesca moral.Between 1959 and 1979, tennis players dressed by Tinling won 12 times the championship.The last was Navratilova, in 1979.

And yes, that includes the principle of the Open era, the rebellion of the original 9 (the group led by Billie Jean King, Rosie Casals and Chris Evert asking for the professionalization of real female tennis.With the help of a brand of cigarettes, Virginia Slim, with which Tinling and the tennis players joined forces because they had no other alternative.And that it became, long before Adidas and Nike, in the reason that Wimbledon prohibited visible logos and patterns.The "battle of the sexes"?King's dress was tinling.And almost in each appearance of the O9 in the early 70s in Wimbledon, Tinling was responsible for dressing their claims and their tennis power.And without losing an apex of Fabulousness along the way.

Tinling had a very close relationship with the players.He sent them chocolate.

In 1986 he entered the Hall of Fame of Tennis, deservedly, four years after having returned to Wimbledon and two after having last dressed on the grass one of his favorites, Casals.Four years later, he died from respiratory problems.But his legacy is still alive in each rebel model on the central track of Wimbledon.And, above all, in every time a tennis player is questioned or described as a Dísola for acting as an independent and free professional.Of course, although Serena has never needed, we would have loved to see what could have come out of the meeting between Ted and Williams.And how many heads of the All England Club would have exploded.