Ten memorable fashion faults from 2019

Tennis ensembles often arrive in terms of tops and bottoms, and that extends to how the reviews of those collections are organized. The year's on-court highlights in the wardrobe department appear here, and now we're curating an off-the-rack collection of 2019's most memorable fashion faults. See if you recall these unforced sartorial errors or find the threads to be repressed memories. They land in no particular order in this rundown, as we don't particularly wish to gaze upon them after this last look:

We begin this unsightly roster with the pink apron motif from Adidas that hung on Ashleigh Barty and Karolina Pliskova's frames, among others, at the Australian Open. Memo to this kit: Sleep now in the (kitchen) fire.

Outfitted in her own design, in collaboration with her fashion-designer mother, Camila Giorgi competed gamely at Roland Garros, but her powerful, flat strokes put holes in the court, whereas they should have gone directly into this attire.

Stars and (wide) stripes abounded for Feliciano Lopez, who of course is not American, at the US Open. For some reason Hydrogen saw fit to put him in a kit ready-made for a 10-year-old kid's clinic. Frankly, this reviewer yearns for Lopez's peak-fashion years with Ellesse.

Sparing but one word on this Lotto number designed for Elise Mertens and others at Roland Garros: garish.

Don't shoot the messenger, but here's a simple truth, written during Roland Garros: "Roger Federer's confounding Uniqlo kit made him look like a United Parcel Service clerk. Startlingly, UPS's own shade seems more striking than this bored brown."

Certainly no fault of the players themselves, Fila (Barty, others) and Lotto (Katerina Siniakova, Mertens, others) staged fashion faux pas at RG19 by giving their sponsorees zebra prints in which to toil. Sacre bleu! Adidas did that just three years earlier—at the same event—and better.

Somehow Lacoste managed to dress Novak Djokovic at a 2019 major not once but twice in a polo with nearly the same color as the court at hand. It's not that the looks are all that bad of themselves. It's that the count is love-30 on the timing of those choices.

A vision on and off the court, Venus Williams has been unnecessarily aged by the look of some prints that lean matronly over time. What's confounding is that they hail from her eponymous EleVen label, and this one from Melbourne halted at the start. Sometimes one should just say no to South Florida floral.

At times a decided winner in the style game in her relatively young tenure with Ellesse, Johanna Konta was done a disservice by this underarm red chevron pattern in Flushing. In short, a Brit deserves better than predominant white at the Grand Slam event immediately following Wimbledon.

It pains one to say this, and around the same time that GQ has feted Federer as its People's Choice most stylish man of the outgoing decade, but his black-and-white henley look in New York was another style blunder. As with Konta at the same tournament, a majority-white post-Wimbledon look does not a fashion moment make. And the City That Never Sleeps calls for loud. Verve. Sleek. Think yesteryear's Darth Federer look, even. Just don't think of this kit ever again.

Need to chase these (out of your memory) with the year's best fashions? See our Top 10 countdown. And see you in the 2020s, certain to be a decade of on-court cool in terms of style sense.