While Zendaya and her stylist Law Roach created a quick and sophisticated game of archival pulls and stretched method dressing to the extreme for the actor challenger On the press tour, it’s real-life tennis star Destanee Aiava, showing off her game both on the court and in the eBay auction arena.

A career-changing moment: Australian Aiava fought back to beat Belgian Greet Minnen at the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on Monday evening (January 13). It was a glorious triumph, eight years after her first debut, and a break to work on the mental challenges of the tour and whether she even wanted to continue playing professional tennis. This is her first Grand Slam victory.

The 24-year-old does it like the champions – and dresses like the legends she admires. Aiava wore a navy, cobalt and sky blue adidas x Stella McCartney dress worn by Danish tennis legend Caroline Wozniacki at the 2013 US Open, which she purchased on eBay.

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“I’ve been wearing Adidas by Stella McCartney for so long that everyone on the team knows my body type and what suits me,” said Wozniacki fashion She expressed her loyalty to the brand back in 2017. “I think every woman likes to look good and care about what she wears, but at the same time I need to feel good so I don’t have to think about anything else on the court.”

Aiava spent her first week recreating iconic looks from tennis champions: in the qualifying rounds, she wore a pink and gray dress that Maria Sharapova wore for the 2012 US Open semifinals. Secondly, in the match against Hungarian Panna Udvardy, Aiava wore a pink and purple adidas dress that Ana Ivanovic wore at the 2010 US Open

In conversation with Ben Rothenberg, who writes this Jumps Substack and is the author of The stylish life: tennis, Aiava shared how she searched for vintage looks online and styled herself. Rothenberg has documented all of Aiava’s archive sets to date.