Tradition must be respected, Dutch woman couldn’t get on because of dark visor

The qualification for the third Grand Slam of this year’s tennis season offered an interesting and curious moment. The Dutch tennis player Indy de Vroom was not allowed to play her first round match because the umpire did not allow her to play due to a too dark visor.

Apart from strawberries and whipped cream, white is a typical colour for the tournament in Great Britain, which tennis players must wear from head to toe. And it was this tradition that Dutchwoman de Vroom stumbled upon.

It turned out that the umpire didn’t like the fact that the inside of the 205th-ranked tennis player’s visor was too dark, so she had to change her outfit before the start.

Even this slight pause and small distraction did not change the fact that Slovakian Viktória Kuzmova, who was de Vroom’s opponent, could not challenge the Dutchwoman.

With her outfit, Indy de Vroom broke rule number 7 of the Wimbledon dress code, which states that hats (including the inside), headbands, scarves, sweats and socks must be completely white except for a single coloured trim no wider than one centimetre. But the tennis player was certainly not the first to break this rule.

Venus Williams or Eugenie Bouchard, for example, have had problems with this rule in the past. Both had a problem with their bras being pink and black respectively.

The famous Roger Federer also had a problem when he wanted to enter a match in 2013 wearing sneakers with bright orange soles.

The Dutchwoman’s visor will no longer be an issue at Wimbledon, as de Vroom crashed out in the second round of qualifying against Russia’s Anna Kalinskaya, and so this moment will remain just another reminder of Grand Slam traditions on grass.

Source: Tennis World