Venus Williams Short Dress: Venus Calls Her Aussie Open Outfit 'Illusion Dress'

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Venus Williams has advanced to the third round of the Australian Open, however, there is more talk about her outfits on the tennis court than her actual play.

After defeating Sandra Zahalvova 7-6, 6-0, 6-4 in the second round of the tournament, she took the time to comment on the inspiration from her new yellow dress.

“Yeah, don’t laugh," told MSNBC. "But it’s kind of about a surprise, because when Alice goes down the hole, the rabbit hole, she finds all these things that are so surprising.

“This outfit is about having a surprise in tennis a dress, and kind of, you know, showing some skin and then just having a print. Prints don’t happen that often in tennis. So it’s called the Wonderland dress. It was fun.”

There was also a bit of a buzz during the first round of the tournament.

According to USAToday: "After winning her opening-round match, Venus explained it was an 'illusion dress' -- with the intended illusion being that she wanted to appear nude by wearing flesh-colored shorts."

"But at the last minute I decided not to," said Williams.

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