The Australian Open, much like the cast of characters who step on to the sunshine-soaked courts every January, has its own sense of style. Over the decades, it has evolved to have more in common with the neon glamour of the US Open than the buttoned-up all-white tradition of Wimbledon, but energetically it lands somewhere in between.
Our laid-back footwear-is-optional lifestyle and the heat of high summer have long created an environment for the best players in the world to embrace colour (Serena Williams has always understood it looks better on TV), midriffs (in the manner of Anna Kournikova) and baggy, untucked T-shirts (in the days of the Sampras-Agassi rivalry).
