ABSTRACT
When tennis champion Serena Williams, days before winning the 2002
U.S. Open, appeared on the courts in a black spandex outfit, media
frenzy ensued. Her body, adorned in all its “ghetto” glamour-
bleached-blonde braids and tight-fitting suit, outlining the contours of
her curves, among other things-managed to disrupt, literally and fig-
uratively, the elitist game of tennis. Williams, who defended herself by
stating that she wanted to wear something “comfortable” as she moved
around the tennis court, was nonetheless attacked in the press for her
“tackiness” and “inappropriate” display of sexuality.