12 JULY 2008, Page 26

Break point

Sir: I am surprised that Roger Alton (Sport, 5 July) fell, like most of the media, for the obvious over Alla Kudryavtseva’s claim that ‘I don’t like her outfit’, especially as he is no fan of Maria Sharapova. It took Tracy Austin to point out what every woman watching must surely have realised, when she told John McEnroe and Sue Barker, ‘I think she meant to say something else.’ I would go further and suggest that Kudryavtseva meant to say something less — with ‘outfit’ being the extra word. Clarke Hayes

Hastings, East Sussex