As tennis stars gather in Flushing, New York, for the US Open, much talk has turned to a comment from the president of the French Tennis Federation, Bernard Giudicelli, who said in an interview that his organization was instating a dress code and that it would ban outfits like the black body suit Serena Williams wore at the French Open last spring. The comment elicited a heated response from Serena fans, as well as Nike. Host Marco Werman speaks about the brouhaha with Ava Wallace, sports reporter for the Washington Post.
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