Tenniscore fashion on trend: The best looks for the office and for tournaments

This series is every investment banker's nightmare: In "Your Friends & Neighbors" (Apple TV+), Jon Hamm (54) plays a ousted investment advisor who loses his fortune and, out of financial need, robs his neighbors in an upscale New York suburb. True to the motto: They won't notice if a Patek or two is missing. The perfect cover for the robberies?

Andrew Cooper continues to hang out at the country club in all-white sports ensembles, making friendly small talk, and coaching his daughter for the Princeton tennis team. You'd expect anything from a guy like that, but certainly not to steal a diamond bracelet or two at a garden party.

Tennis is always about the blurring of appearance and reality. Every amateur Boris knows that. And that's also the reason why hardly anyone can escape the fascination of tennis once they've hit a few balls themselves or watched the pros battle it out on the court.

Among the self-proclaimed tennis aficionados are business leaders such as Microsoft founder Bill Gates (69), Volkswagen boss Oliver Blume (57), the drugstore duo Dirk (78) and Raoul Roßmann (39), but also music legend Marius Müller-Westernhagen (76) and Pope Leo XIV (69), who, as one of his first official acts, talked shop about forehand and backhand with Italian tennis star Jannik Sinner (23).

In this sport, presentation and attitude count just as much as the perfect serve. This was particularly evident this year at Wimbledon, where players, staff, and guests willingly adhere to decades-old style rules. The grass is always eight millimeters deep, the players' outfits are always white (not off-white and certainly not cream-colored!), and Pimm's is always drunk in the stands (even if you don't like the cucumber cocktail). Wimbledon is aesthetically strict. And that's precisely what draws attention to the players who have to prove on Center Court whether they can handle the pressure—or not.

In tennis, you never quite know what's hiding behind the preppy facade. It's an effect that fashion is only too happy to be inspired by: "Tenniscore" is set to establish itself as a trend this summer, even beyond the country clubs. Sure, a little game-set-match spirit in business life can't hurt.

Venus Williams (45), for example, appeared at the Met Gala in New York in a glamorous Lacoste look reminiscent of her former Grand Slam outfits. Rising star Coco Gauff (21) is wearing looks from a collaboration between Miu Miu and New Balance at this summer's tournaments, combining sporty style with fashionable ambition. And retired tennis player and Anna Wintour buddy Roger Federer (43) has designed a collection for Uniqlo with designer Clare Waight Keller (54), which is sure to cause a stir at the local club tournament and at the Prosecco reception afterward.