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‘Underwear to Court 18’: Wimbledon Ensures Players Stick to the Code
“内裤送到18号场” 温布顿的服装规定
WIMBLEDON, England — Jurij Rodionov’s bleached-blond man bun did not offend
Wimbledon sensibilities before his third-round boys’ singles match Thursday,
but something nearly invisible did: his blue underwear.
Rodionov，一个金发球员，在他的青少年第三轮比赛之前并没有刺激到温布顿敏感神经，
但在星期四的比赛的时候，有件几乎是看不到的东西刺激到了大会：他的蓝色小内裤。
As Rodionov stood at the net for the coin toss, the chair umpire, Philip
Lodge, inquired about Rodionov’s underwear; Rodionov obligingly yanked down
the waistband of his white shorts to reveal the color. A supervisor, Lucy
Grant, soon came onto court.
当Rodionov在网前猜硬币正反面的时候，主审Philip Lodge问了Rodionov他的内裤；
Rodionov按照规定得配合－把他的白色球裤拉下来。球场的监察员Lucy Grant随即出现。
“Ah,” she said, seeing the underwear when Rodionov, 18, again dutifully
lowered his shorts. “This is the problem we have: If you’re serving, the
shorts could become visible.”
“呃...”监察员看着Rodionov的内裤说，“这就是问题了，当你发球的时候，这裤子就变
得清晰可见了。”
Grant sent out a sartorial S.O.S. on her walkie-talkie.
监察员随即从她的对讲机发出了"服装S.O.S."通知。
“Can we have some underwear to Court 18 — boys’?” she asked as Rodionov
laughed.
“可以送几件内裤到18号球场吗？男生的？"当监察员问的时候，Rodionov笑了出来。
Although Wimbledon’s intensified all-white dress code explicitly includes “
any undergarments that either are or can be visible during play (including
due to perspiration),” tournament officials were disappointed that the
problem had been addressed publicly.
虽然温布顿大会强调服装要全白－也包括内衣裤，在比赛的时候不可以被看见，即使流汗
也不行，大会官员对于这件是被公开了还是有点失望。
“It is our preference that any issues regarding the ‘all-white’ rule and
undergarments are discussed and dealt with between matches,” a statement
from the All-England Club said. “Unfortunately, we have been made aware of a
couple of instances where this was not the case, but we will ensure this
happens in the future.”
“我们是希望有关全白服装以及内衣裤的规定在比赛之间处理就好，”全英俱乐部的声明
说到，“但是不幸的，我们有察觉到有些未符合规定的案例，但是我们会确保将来不会再
发生。”
Rodionov, an Austrian, said he had worn black underwear in his previous round
without incident, but that Lodge had spotted the blue color through his white
shorts and declared, “We have a problem.”
奥地利球员Rodionov说他前一场是穿黑色内裤就没事，这场被主审抓到他穿蓝色内裤，然
后主审就说，“我们有问题了。”
Offered a choice of medium or large, Rodionov selected medium, and he was
also given an extra pair for his doubles match later. Rodionov said the
episode was not stressful but rather eased his pre-match nerves.
Rodionov被问要大还是中的内裤，Rodionov说中的，他同时还被多给了一件让他在双打的
时候穿。他说这个事件没有让他有额外的压力，反而让他比赛前的紧张舒缓了不少。
“It was fine — I got more relaxed, actually,” he said. “So I think it
helped me.”
“真的还好，我反而更轻松了，”他说，“所以我想那反而帮到我。”
Rodionov won his match, 6-3, 6-7(4), 6-3, over Blake Ellis of Australia.
Rodionov赢了那场比赛，6-3, 6-7(4), 6-3，对手是澳洲的Blake Ellis。
An on-court investigation into underpants also took place before a boys’
doubles match on Wednesday. The top-seeded pair, Zsombor Piros and Wu
Yibing, as well as one of their opponents, were told to change after the
umpire saw Piros’s blue underwear peeking through.
另外一个事件则是发生在星期三的男子双打，种子双打Zsombor Piros跟Wu Yibing，跟他
们对手的其中一个，都被要求去换内裤， 因为主审看到Piros的蓝色内裤...
Wimbledon provided legal white underwear for those players, too. After the
incident was featured on the BBC that night, Piros’s and Wu’s entire
six-minute news conference the next day focused on underwear questions, which
amazed Piros.
大会马上提供符合规定的白色内裤给那三个球员，在那事件被BBC报导之后，Piro跟Wu在第
二天的的六分钟记者会全部在讨论小裤裤问题。
“I didn’t realize it was such big news,” he said.
“我没想到这会是大新闻，”他说。
Undergarments have been an occasional obsession at Wimbledon for generations.
In 1949, the American Gertrude Moran (known as Gorgeous Gussie) scandalized
the tournament by wearing white underpants with lace trim that was visible
under her short skirt. The All England Club criticized Moran for “bringing
vulgarity and sin into tennis.”
内裤在温布顿已经纠结很久了。1949年美国选手Gertrude Moran因为白内衣裤旁边有蕾
丝，在裙子里被看到，被大会视作丑闻，全英俱乐部说Moran“把粗俗带到球场”。
Decades later, Chris Evert failed an inspection because of the red ruffles on
her white bloomers.
几年后，Chris Evert被认为违反规定，因为她的白裤子有红色的折边。
“They weren’t noticeable at all because our dresses were longer,” Evert
said in 2014. “But the guy, he lifted up my skirt and looked at the red and
told me to go back to the changing room and change them.”
“那折边根本看不到，因为我们的裙子很长，”Evert说。“但是那检查员把我的裙子拉起
来，看到红折边就叫我去换掉了。”
The fascination with underwear has persisted into this century. In 2007,
Tatiana Golovin wore a preapproved short white Lacoste dress with red
undershorts. After her first-round victory, several newspapers printed
pictures with her head cropped out, focusing instead on her hemline. The
first question Golovin was asked in her news conference was, “Can I ask you
about your knickers?”
对于内衣裤的要求到了最近还是继续持续。2007年Golovin穿着事先报备过的鳄鱼牌裙子，
下面有穿红色内裤。在第一轮之后，几家报纸刊的照片把她照片的头剪掉，放大那红色内
裤边。当她的记者会举行的第一个问题是，“可以问你的红色内裤吗?”
“I played so bad that year,” said Golovin, who is working as a commentator
at Wimbledon this year. “It was the last thing I wanted to get attention for.
”
“我那年打得超差，”Golovin说，现在她是今年的评论员。“那是我最不想被注意到的事
情。”
Boundary-pushing soon became the norm. Serena Williams won her 2010 and 2012
Wimbledon titles with bright red and then purple undershorts. Wimbledon
responded by enforcing its stricter rules in 2014.
测试温布顿规定变成是常态，小威在2010跟2012拿冠军的时候穿着红色跟紫色内裤。2014
年大会决定要强力执行规定。
During her first-round match last week, Venus Williams wore a bra with
visible pink straps. She was not questioned about the garment during play,
but after a midmatch rain delay, she returned with no offending color visible.
上周大威第一轮的内衣有明显的粉红肩带，她没被要求更换，但是中间因雨延赛的时候，
她的内衣换了。
Asked about the change after the match, she said: “I don’t like talking
about bras in press conferences. It’s weird.”
被问到什么换，她说，“我不希望等等记者会的时候被问到内衣的事情，那很诡异。”