Adidas courts controversy with camouflage at French Open

New York

THERE have not been any real shocks in the French Open thus far - at least when it comes to the tennis, with most of the top seeds breezing through the first few rounds.

When it comes to the clothes, however, it's a different matter. This year, Adidas decided to put its athletes in "an audacious one-of-a-kind range made to disrupt and inspire". Translation: eye-boggling black-and-white zebra stripes.

Simona Halep wore them on a top with a black ruffled skirt and suspenders. (Suspenders!) Ana Ivanovic had a striped-all-over tank dress with a trompe l'oeil drape at the waist. Alexander Zverev wore the stripes in a s…