Alize Cornet And Pauline Parmentier Show Off Their Lacoste Tennis Outfits In Paris

Alize Cornet Wears Her Lacoste Crocodile With Pride - Texas 2011

The indoor GDF Suez Open stadium in Paris is the ideal backdrop to highlight Lacoste women's tennis clothing. Lacoste is an exclusive, proudly French brand, but is becoming more widely available worldwide, and now has been voted 3rd most popular tennis brand behind the market leaders, adidas and Nike in the Women's Tennis Apparel website poll of ten of the best.

French women, as you might guess, have more of a propensity to wear their own country's apparel brand, and local players get a better chance to play in Paris, so there's been a plenty of chance to see the new Lacoste spring tennis clothing on these players.

Alize Cornet and doubles partner, Pauline Parmentier, have been playing quite well this week in the singles with the support of their home fans, and both looked elegant in their light blue and white Lacoste tennis dresses. To be absolutely correct, the dress is called the 'Lacoste Women's Sleeveless Technical Pique Vintage Tennis Ball Printed Polo Dress', but it looks much better than it sounds.

The light blue fabric, on closer inspection is made of hundreds of mini tennis balls, but overall, the dress has a classic look with it's Polo collar and placket, with the crocodile logo fitting nicely over the pocket.

Lacoste have lost their high flier, Sam Stosur, to ASICS this year, but have plenty of other accomplished top 50 players alongside Alize and Pauline to compensate, like Dominika Cibulkova and Petra Cetkovska.

Lacoste are an environmentally aware company, and contribute to a variety of causes to better the lot of those in their supply chain and the world in general. They belong to the 'Save Your Logo' scheme whereby companies with an animal emblem, like their famous Lacoste Crocodile, seek to protect and encourage the well being of their adopted animal. Lacoste contribute to the conservation of crocodile species around the world.

I think it adds to the appeal of already pretty clothing, that the company that make it hasn't exploited the planet or it's people in the process. Thankfully this is gradually becoming the norm, not the exception, with Nike, adidas and others having similar schemes.

Victoria Azarenka Wears The Shorts In The Final With Maria Sharapova

Victoria Azarenka Joins The Women's Tennis Elite

There was plenty to compare and contrast apart from the din in the Australian Open final between familiar shrieker Maria Sharapova and her younger howling rival, Victoria Azarenka.

Maria, as usual produced a performance of exemplary power, control and concentration, but was more than matched in all departments by Vika, who had more variety of shot and speed around the court.  Maria's behavior was measured and restrained, a bit like Bjorn Borg in his prime, but Vika seemed to actively invite dispute and controversy to ignite her game, much like John McEnroe.

The result was a complete drubbing for Maria, 6 - 3, 6 - 0, as Victoria finally realized her immense potential after 2 years of assured guidance from her coach, Sam Sumyk. Maria has made great strides herself recently following injury, but frustratingly for her, Victoria and Petra Kvitova in particular, seem to have 'set the bar' a bit higher in women's tennis now.

Maria can console herself with the fact that she wasn't bested by any other player during the tournament, fashion wise. Her immaculate image in her white and bright green Nike Maria Statement Slam tennis dress was only slightly ruffled by a few beads of sweat in the Australian heat, and a growing look of desperation as she realized there was going to be no way past Vika in this mood.

Victoria's own Nike apparel was just as stylish, (Tie Break Graphic Tennis Tank and Knit Tennis Short), but was a complete contrast, with tennis shorts getting a rare appearance in a women's tennis final. Even today, women's tennis shorts are a slightly rebellious option, so matched Vika's personality nicely.

Nike can perhaps breathe a little easier, as Serena's tennis career looks to be winding down, because they now have three young players - Petra, Victoria and Maria at the top of the game to showcase their women's tennis apparel for many years to come.

The Australian Open Turns A Shade Of adidas Orange

Daniela Hantuchova Plays Instinctively In Her Adizero Tennis Dress

Last year, large parts of central and southern Australia were subject to a massive dust storm, that turned the sky a shade of orange for days. This year the orange hue in the Melbourne area is being created by the large number of women tennis players winning whilst wearing adidas Adizero tennis apparel.

Strictly speaking, according to adidas the predominant colors are 'Ultra Bright' and 'Core Energy', but the effect is definitely orangeish. As soon as I saw Ana Ivanovic in her dress for the pre-season photo shoot, I thought this color combination was going to be a winner.

Now it seems many other adidas women tennis players are reveling in their Adizero outfits too, as results have been going their way. Sorana Cirstea and Christina McHale have already put out number 6 seed, Sam Stosur and number 24 seed, Lucie Safarova respectively. Daniela Hantuchova wears the Adizero dress, and like Ana she's already in the third round.

There are two alternative color schemes within this Adizero range: in one the orange and red predominate, in the other, white is the main color with the ultra bright/core energy just accents. You can buy the dress or cap sleeve top with skort if you prefer.

The adidas Adizero Tempaia tennis shoes for women match the tennis outfits to perfection and look to be the best looking tennis shoes of the year so far. With the accompaniment of the Adizero tennis warm up jacket to complete the look, you'll look as sharp as the Australian sun and as cool as the city of Melbourne.

Jelena Jankovic Finds Fila To Be Her Tennis Apparel Solution

It's been a bit frustrating, these last few years, if you admired the tennis clothing style of former world No. 1, Jelena Jankovic, as her recent choice of ANTA has been very difficult to find outside Asia.

Jelena used to be sponsored

Jelena's Fila Center Court Tennis Dress

by Reebok, who gave her some extremely attractive tennis apparel, but her relationship with ANTA has been a bit more hit and miss. Now Jelena's back to another European company, Fila, who seem set on capturing as many of the top women players as they can.

They already have Slam winners, Kim Clijsters and Svetlana Kuznetsova on their books, along with former world number 5, Anna Chakvetadze, who thankfully seems to be over her recent health problems. Anna's one of a handful of players, like Maria Kirilenko, who seem to be able to turn a pretty tennis outfit into the prettiest, because of her perfect proportions.

Fila celebrated their hundredth birthday last year and did it in style with many of the finest designs of the year, including the bold styling of the Center Court tennis Dress that Jelena wore recently. The mix of Italian fashion know how and an insistence on the best fabrics are a powerful combination in the development of appealing women's tennis apparel.

This dress is now at a discount and available in most sizes, so what better time to experience Fila's delightful tennis attire.

Daniela Hantuchova Vies With Ana Ivanovic To Return To The Top 10

Daniela Hantuchova Wears adidas Adizero Whilst Winning In Australia 

Two of the top women performers for adidas, Ana Ivanovic and Daniela Hantuchova are hoping 2012 will see their returning to the top ten in women's tennis. They're numbers 22 and 24 respectively this week, but both have good reason to believe they can rise this high because they've done it before.

Ana went all the way to number 1 in 2008 when she won her only Slam, Roland Garros. Her form dramatically fell away immediately after that and continued to be erratic for the next 3 years, Ana falling to a low ranking of 64 in 2010.

Now with a respected new coach, Nigel Sears, former head of women's tennis at the Lawn Tennis Association in the UK, Ana appears happier and more settled, and has big plans to rediscover the form that took her all the way to the top, with Nigel's insights into her tennis game.

It looks like Nigel has made an impact already in 2012 as Ana dominated defending Australian Open champion, Kim Clijsters in Brisbane at times, only for her recurrent frailties to reemerge as she let Kim come back from a 3 - 0 deficit in the 3rd set to win.

Ironically, Nigel has previously worked with Daniela too, before his stint at the LTA, where his guidance took her to number 5 in the world. Daniela's recently remarked that she is determined to make 2012 a good year as she nears 29 years of age.

So far she looks as good as her word with wins over higher ranked fellow Slovak, Dominika Cibulkova and Vania King in Brisbane, but her likely next opponent is Serena Williams. If she gets past that hurdle then a top ten place this year looks a real likelihood.

Both Ana and Daniela wear the adidas Adizero range of tennis clothing, and the new Australian Open tennis outfits are already on the online shelves. They look stunningly good this year and Ana and Daniela have the physiques to showcase them to perfection.

Bebe Sport Tennis Clothing Lifts The Winter Gloom

Bebe Sport Tennis Apparel - Pretty & Practical

December's quite a quiet month for new women's tennis apparel as the large brands prepare to unwrap the latest tennis fashion for their tennis stars, ready for the New Year Down Under. But there's still plenty of exciting tennis apparel out there if you're not worried that your tennis gear isn't worn by a top ten tennis player.

One of my favorites this year is Bebe Sport, an offshoot of Bebe, whose tennis apparel selection makes many other makes look a bit staid and stodgy.

There's two distinct summery color schemes to choose from - white and graphite, with either 'wetsuit' pink or turquoise. Once you select your preferred colors, Bebe give you the alternatives of tank or polo top with tiered or ruffle skirt, or you might prefer the tennis dress.

There's a matching shawl collar Jacket to complete the look, and even a matching bra that looks just too good to be covered up by a tennis top. Wearing the complete tennis outfit to court is going to get you noticed for all the right reasons!

Just in case you worry that all this style might come at the expense of comfort, Bebe have made sure that the entire range is constructed to efficiently draw away moisture as your tennis match heats up, so you'll feel as cool as you look.

Unusually in this age of Asian dominance of clothing manufacture, Bebe's tennis collection is made wholly in the USA and at a very competitive price. Check out the enticing selection of Bebe tennis apparel here.

Maria Sharapova's Feminizing Influence On Head Tennis Bags

Head Tennis Bags always seemed a little masculine to me. It's probably not too surprising as they make tennis racquets and bags for many of the top male tennis players like Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Tomas Berdych and Robin Soderling.

But not anymore. Now with Maria Sharapova on board, after she left Prince, Head are producing some very stylish tennis bag designs to recognize the fact that many women don't particularly like the muscular, manly type.

They produce two ranges - one named after and for Maria herself in black and gold. The other a wider, more colorful bag range including a 3 racquet Combi bag, Sports bag and Sling bag, with matching Handbag and Toiletry bag in the same enticing color scheme. The anthracite, white and gold works perfectly in combination to produce a tastefully distinctive look. 

With Maria Sharapova's influence and input, you now know that these bags are going to be practical enough for all you tennis needs, yet supremely stylish at the same time. Alongside the integrated shoe compartment and climate control technology to protect her racquets, Maria insisted on a compartment for jewelry. Well you can't put your Tiffany jewelry just anywhere, can you?