“I feel like Serena is such an icon that everybody can have inspiration from her, like she’s the original,” Gauff continued. “I take it as an acknowledgment. I’m not going to sit here and lie to you and be like, ‘Yeah, we took this picture and we wanted to do that.’
“But I will say that she’s just done everything in tennis when it comes to style that at some point sometimes things just look similar because she’s done it all.”
Gauff told *People* magazine in an exclusive interview this week that her Grand Slam kits are planned a year or two in advance (and that her new hair is a tribute to singer Willow Smith). She gives input on the final styles she’ll wear on court, but she’s wholly credting the creative minds at New Balance with producing this year’s SW19 kit.
Her only direction? “Play with cutouts,” because, “there’s not much you can do with the white,” she said.
