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Eugenie Bouchard gets violation for wearing black sports bra

Eugenie Bouchard of Canada leaves the court after losing to Ying-Ying Duan of China in the singles first round match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Tuesday June 30, 2015. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)
Eugenie Bouchard of Canada leaves the court after losing to Ying-Ying Duan of China in the singles first round match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Tuesday June 30, 2015. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Eugenie Bouchard basically followed the Wimbledon dress code on Tuesday. She wore a white dress over a white sports bra and stood in white tennis shoes.

But the 21-year-old Canadian also wore a black sports bra underneath the white sports bra, and there's no getting a small detail like that past the notoriously-strict All England Club.

The straps of the black bra barely peaked out on her shoulder blades, and that was enough for chair umpire to slap the 2014 runner-up with a dress-code violation. The rules were updated in 2014 to clarify that:

“white does not include off-white or cream” and allowing only “a single trim of color no wider than one centimeter.” The almost-all-white rule now explicitly covers caps, headbands, bandannas, wristbands, shoes and even “any undergarments that either are or can be visible during play (including due to perspiration).”

The club doesn't turn a blind eye for anyone: Roger Federer was banned from wearing tennis shoes with an orange sole in 2013.

The violation was the least of Bouchard's worries on Tuesday, as the 12th-seed lost to Chinese qualifier Duan Ying-Ying in straight sets.

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Danielle Elliot is a writer for Yahoo Sports. Contact her at delliot@yahoo-inc.com or find her on Twitter and Facebook.