{"id":1814,"date":"2014-06-27T10:19:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T14:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/?p=1814"},"modified":"2014-06-27T10:19:48","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T14:19:48","slug":"wimbledon-tennis-players-being-forced-to-go-braless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/2014\/06\/27\/wimbledon-tennis-players-being-forced-to-go-braless\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon tennis players being forced to go braless"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nWomen tennis players at Wimbledon are competing without bras.<\/p>\n

The long standing all white dress code of Wimbledon also applies to undergarments which may become visible during perspiration.<\/p>\n

In a letter sent prior to the tournament beginning tournament referee Andrew Jarrett said: “Undergarments that either are or can be visible during play (including due to perspiration) must also be completely white and contain no more than 1cm of coloured trim.” <\/p>\n

One could sum it up to rules are rules but others including 1987 champion Pat Cash believes its time to change them.<\/p>\n

“Some of the girls have been told to go back and change their bras and tops because they had slight colour on them,” Cash said on BBC 5 Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I believe some of the girls didn\u2019t have suitable sports bras and had to go without them. It has absolutely gone ridiculous. It’s archaic thinking.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Women tennis players at Wimbledon are competing without bras. The long standing all white dress code of Wimbledon also applies to undergarments which may become visible during perspiration. In a letter sent prior to the tournament beginning tournament referee Andrew Jarrett said: “Undergarments that either are or can be visible during play (including due to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3],"class_list":{"0":"post-1814","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1816,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions\/1816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1814"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}