It’s easy to forget now because it happened two very long weeks ago, but Serena Williams arrived at the 2018 United States Open already wronged.

Bernard Giudicelli, the president of the French Tennis Federation, which puts on the French Open, had just vowed to ban outfits like the great, black, full-body compression suit, with short sleeves and an arresting red waistband, that Williams had worn there in the spring.

“You have to respect the game and the place,” Giudicelli told Tennis Magazine. It was a complaint so vague as to say nothing about what comprised disrespect. Was her body too sheathed? Her figure too full? The skin too brown?

The French Open was Williams’s first major tournament since life-threatening complications after the birth of her daughter, and the suit, she said, helped her circulation. During her three commanding rounds at the tournament (a pectoral muscle injury forced her to pull out), she mentioned how the suit reminded her of “Black Panther” and dedicated her wearing of it to “all the moms out there who had a tough recovery from pregnancy.”