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Victoria Azarenka of Belarus reacts as she plays Johanna Larsson of Sweden during their first round match on the second day of the 2011 US Open Tennis Championship at the USTA National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, New York, USA 30 August 2011
Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2011

Open quoteThe fashion of tennis has been elevated, so the hair plays into that as well. Close quote

  • JENNA GOLDATE,
  • a spokeswoman for the Braid Bar at the John Barrett Salon on Fifth Avenue, explaining that more and more female tennis players are playing with long plaits, as the U.S. Open gets underway
Photo: JOHN G. MABANGLO / EPA | Source: New York Times