Venus Williams, on her lace dress and see-through undershorts: "The design has nothing to do with the rear. It just so happens that I have a very well developed one (smiles). It's all genetic.

"That was never the objective... it's really about the illusion. Like you can wear lace, but what's the point of wearing lace when there's just black under. The illusion of just having bare skin is definitely for me a lot more beautiful.

"Lace has never been done before in tennis, and I've been wanting to do it for a long time."

Serena showed me a picture [taken] from behind. At this point it's like -- the dress is here, this is what I'm wearing. You know, thankfully, like I said, everything is all fit."

On the skin-coloured underpants she wore at the Australian Open: "I had a dress with really long slits in the front, and it was about wearing a dress that it looks like, oh, you have these slits with bareness... I had no idea that it would, first of all, that it would match so well my skin.

"It went a whole other level to the point where I was getting calls from my publicist in the middle of the night. I was like, well, the last time this happened there were rumors I was married."