Appealing (and revealing) tennis attire, through the years...

My friend Henry was watching some classic tennis matches from the 80s recently and bemoaned the fact that the male tennis stars no longer wear those tight short shorts that looked so good on Pat Cash, Boris Becker and especially Stefan Edberg (pictured above). Edberg had the best legs in the game (Henry prefered Boris) and I just gotta figure if he wore the clothes of today, we would not have been treated to such beauty as we watched the beautiful blonde Swede serve and volley his way to two Wimbledons, two U.S. Opens and two Austrialian Opens. [For a preview of the 2007 Wimbledon seeds, see my Deuce! blog]

But all is not lost. In some of the photos below, you can see that while the guys are covering up their legs these days with those long shorts, they have been showing their biceps in recent years with these sleeveless shirts that are worn Rafael Nadal, Carlos Moya, Lleyton Hewitt and others. Below is American Michael Russel who is seen playing in Nottingham on Tuesday. He lost to Tim Henman but hey, nice guns.


Nadal has arms that were made for the sleeveless shirts...
Nadal's good buddy and sometimes doubles partner Carlos Moya also wears the sleeveless look well. If you want to see Carlos and fellow Spaniard Tommy Robrero wearing even LESS, you must continue reading PAST THE JUMP!!!