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- Destanee Aiava wore vintage tennis outfits she found on eBay at the 2025 Australian Open.
- She sported replicas of dresses worn by past champions, including Maria Sharapova and Ana Ivanovic.
- Aiava made it through three rounds of qualifying to earn a spot in the main draw.
If you’ve been following Week 1 of the 2025 Australian Open, you’ve probably noticed a lot of the same outfits.
Adidas has its players kitted out in bold red for the first major of the year, known as “The Happy Slam.” Many of Nike’s athletes, including Aryna Sabalenka and Carlos Alcaraz, are wearing green and yellow.
It’s not uncommon for tennis players to wear the same kit throughout the entirety of a tournament due to their endorsement contracts.
But for qualifier Destanee Aiava, who doesn’t have a clothing sponsor, her on-court styles were completely up to her — and she chose to pay homage to past champions Maria Sharapova, Caroline Wozniacki, and Ana Ivanovic by wearing their iconic looks from the late 2000s and early 2010s.
She couldn’t get the gear through Nike or Adidas, though. Aiava bought the dresses secondhand online.
“I’ve found them on eBay — for double the price that they were originally for,” she told tennis reporter Ben Rothenberg. “But yeah, I just like looking on Depop, Facebook Marketplace, eBay to find the old, vintage outfits that I loved when I was little.”
Ranked just inside the top 200, the 24-year-old Australian-Samoan had to battle through three rounds of qualifying rounds to earn a slot in the main draw.
For her first match in qualies, she wore a light pink Nike dress that Sharapova sported at the 2012 US Open.
For round two, Aiava got her hands on a pink and purple number worn by Ana Ivanovic at the 2010 US Open.
She wore a different pink Ivanovic dress for her third-round match, which propelled her into the main draw of the AO.
Heading into the first round of the main draw match, BBC asked Aiava about her outfit choice. She said she’d found one of Facebook: “I might go pick that up. It’s only $35, which is a steal.”
BBC didn’t confirm whether she purchased it. Aiava walked on court in a sky blue Adidas dress previously worn by Caroline Wozniacki at the 2013 US Open, and earned her very first Grand Slam main-draw win. Advancing to the round of 64 earned her $200,000 AUD ($124,280 USD).
“It means that I can bring someone to travel with this year, and I can afford to actually go to all the tournaments that I want to,” Aiava said after the comeback victory. “I struggle traveling on my own. The fact that I get to bring my fiancé with me and hopefully one of my family members to the big ones, it makes a world of a difference.”
In what would be her last match at the 2025 Australian Open, Aiava wore another Sharapova number while battling American Danielle Collins, who eventually prevailed in three sets.
“It was actually from one of the girls that I used to play tennis with when I was little,” Aiava told 9News of the fit. “She reached out and offered to lend me a dress and I actually ran out of options as well, so I’m so lucky.”
Aiava told BBC that she’s “hoping to get a sponsor.” But in the meantime, “I’m loving picking whatever I want to wear and buying whatever I want.”
She told 9News that if she continues the tradition, she’d like to eventually bring back a Serena Williams piece. However, it was out of her budget for this event: “They are quite hard to find and quite expensive.”
