SANTINY Tennis Skirts

Fifteen skirts answer to this name, and the hem is how you tell them apart. The pleated skirts hang in flat folds all round; the scalloped skirt is cut in soft curves at the hem; the ruffled skirts add a flounce. Under all of them is a pair of fitted shorts with the pockets in, so a ball goes on one hip and a phone on the other and neither shows. Most are cut at 14 or 16 inches, the two lengths a court is played in, with a 13.5-inch mini at one end and a 19-inch ruffled skirt at the other.

The pleated skirt with four pockets is the one to start with if you have never worn one of ours: it carries more ratings than the rest of the page put together and comes in more than thirty colours. If you want the pockets zipped, the 16-inch skirt with two zip pockets is the only one here that has them. Sizes run XS to 2XL on most cards and XXS on the pleated family; every skirt sits high at the waist, and the fabric on the pleated ones is an 87 per cent polyester knit with 13 per cent spandex through it.