Goddess with a dodgy top and Venus was her name

TENNIS and fashion lovers alike will anxiously monitor today’s medical bulletins from Melbourne to learn if Venus Williams is fit enough to take her place in tomorrow’s third round Australian Open match with Andrea Petkovic.

The intrigue isn’t entirely born of concern for the American’s chances of securing a 22nd Grand Slam title. Instead the question on everyone’s lips court-side is: what will Venus wear next? The championship’s motto is “A Whole New Level” and Williams certainly kept that in mind in her second-round clash with Sandra Zahlavova, topping her round one mini-dress by sporting the kind of garish outfit that Lady Gaga might have kept in her handbag until Mammy Gaga had dropped her off in town.

Words do it little justice.