All competitors are required to wear all-white attire for the renowned golf Grand Slam in London, a custom that dates back to the 1880s, when perspiration stains were deemed ugly and light clothing was thought to reduce visibility.
Female athletes may have issues with this legislation, which is still in place today. In response to these concerns, the government issued a new guideline allowing women to wear black undershorts as long as they are visible beneath their white skirts.
Canadian tennis player Bouchard acknowledged that the requirement to wear whitened can also give off some anxiety during a conversation on the No Only podcast with Valeria Lipovetsky. She revealed:” However we may approach our own golf games, that is something completely out of our manage.
There is no possibility that the competition will decide the plan or the dates you play. I recall having those awful period pain and soreness the day before the US Open in New York.
And I said, “Thank God, this is just a practice day now, because today’s match would be really difficult.” I did play right away the following day, so it wasn’t the best, but it’s something we have to deal with. It’s just luck because we can’t control the schedule.
“And I am aware that some of the journey girls are a little anxious because of the requirement to use white to Wimbledon. So it only makes you a little more home- conscious if you’re… you know. Although it’s difficult, they’ve recently changed the regulations to allow wearing game short underneath a different color. But that’s a very- new law.”
Bouchard, who has since swapped sport for pickleball, also spoke out against the discrimination she’s encountered throughout her job and described how it prevented her from engaging in off-court activities that she enjoyed.
She added (via: “I would like to suggest that fairly early on I was open to doing off- judge projects or unique things- and that’s something truly I got, at times, negative comments about, because it was like ‘well, you’re a golf player, you mayn’t been doing a photoshoot for Vogue. Like, what are you doing?'”
“Back in the day, I believe it was much less appropriate to do that. People actually wanted you to stay significantly more in your field. And so it made me feel terrible, it made me feel innocent. I’m of, “Well, I did still practice for four days now, I swear,” and I only felt this obnoxious sort of guilt on my part.”
“I really stuck to sport, doing a few off-court projects there and there, before I started picking up pickleball and getting into so many different things, and I’m really enjoying it because it’s really only been tennis since five, eight, and nine years ago. And I love it.”
The remarks came after she complained in public about what she thought were two different requirements for women in professional sports.
She recalls how she would’ve been “crucified” for admitting she enjoys the fame, calling out stranger Jack Draper who declared in an interview with: “I really enjoy being in front of the camera, if I’m looking nice, that is.”
Bouchard deeply responded on X, asserting: “If I had said this 10 years ago I would have been crucified,” which drummed up social agreement among supporters in the opinion section.
One follower remarked: “Raducanu is also getting criticized, little has changed for people. Double standards also exists,” while another rang in with: “You still may be now”!
The draw for the opening matches is scheduled for Friday (June 28), and Wimbledon is scheduled to begin the month of June. Bouchard won the women’s singles finalized in 2014 after defeating Simona Halep in the semifinals and Angelique Kerber in the quarter-finals.
Nevertheless, she fell short in the last against Olympic metal medallist Petra Kvitova, losing in flat pieces 6- 3, 6- 0.