fashion endorsement contracts with Tiffany & Co. and Christian Dior, and by attending red carpet occasions such as the Vogue-run Met Gala.Eddie Jones, England's rugby union head coach, was the most vocal in questioning Raducanu’s off-court commitments. “There’s a reason why the young girl who won the US Open hasn’t done so well afterwards,” he said. “What have you seen her on – the front page of Vogue… wearing Christian Dior clothes.
All that is a distraction around her.”The sexism loaded in Jones’s appraisal of Raducanu as the fashion-distracted “young girl” has been widely dissected.
Former British Number One Jo Durie pointed out “no-one ever complains about blokes going to galas; it’s always something that is thrown at women.”Durie is.
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