Museum wants to pocket Nadal's trousers

Rafael Nadal's calf-length trousers are causing a stir as Wimbledon museum is desperate to get its hands on a pair.

Rafael Nadal's calf-length trousers are causing a stir at the All England Club with the Wimbledon museum desperate to get its hands on a pair.

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"It's an absolutely fabulous kit and unique, firstly, because he's the first person to wear a sleeveless shirt on Centre Court, and, secondly, because he's wearing pirata," Honor Godfrey, curator of the museum, told a newspaper.

"We've had tight, short, baggy...but I see his shorts in terms of going back to knickerbockers. The last person to wear those was Sidney Wood in 1931."