Anyone for corsets?
June 27, 2007 
Maria Sharapova always seems to turn up to her matches in some kind of fashionable statement these days, after the corset top and skirt and the little black dress she wore at American tennis tournaments caused a stir.
While Wimbledon's 2004 champion certainly impresses with her tennis skills, her taste for corsets and other trendy garments also has to be admired.
But at this year's Wimbledon, instead of a corseted figure, Ms Sharapova attempted to resemble a swan.
The tennis star appeared on court to play Chan Yung-Jan in a white dress with wing-like attachments, which, the Daily Mail reports may have been inspired by Swan Lake.
"Originally, it didn't have as many pleats in the back," she said of the dress. "I wanted there to be more of a pleat effect in the back, and I think the end result made it look more like a swan. Even on the hanger, it doesn't look as swan-ish as it does on me."
Although it emerges that Ms Sharapova may have had her tongue in her cheek when she said the dress was originally supposed to have been inspired by the famous ballet. "I just made reference to it because a swan is usually white, right, unless it's weird," she said.
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