Maya Joint, a 20-year-old Australian tennis player, spent just 70 minutes on court as she fell in the first round of Roland Garros. It was more than enough time for the redhead to deliver the tournament’s first fashion statement in her wraparound Oakley sunglasses. These glasses have been a signature for Joint. They make her look somewhere between a skeet shooter and a “Star Trek” background character.

On Monday, as temperatures reached the low 90s in Paris, there was something cinematic about watching the court’s hot red clay reflect off Joint’s blue-tint lenses. Over the past several years, the tentacles of luxury fashion have pulled tighter around pro tennis. Aryna Sabalenka and Jannik Sinner, the respective women’s and men’s world No. 1s, have Gucci deals in common. (The online publication Sportico reported this week that there was scuttlebutt over whether these two were allowed by the tournaments to carry Gucci handbags onto court. Sabalenka, conspicuously, was Gucci-less as she took to the court in Paris.)

Naomi Osaka, still feeling her way through a return to the top of the women’s game, is the player most apt to treat her on-court arrival like a red carpet premiere. On Tuesday, she appeared for her first-round match in a custom gown by the “upcycled couture” designer Kevin Germanier. As she walked to the bench, her capacious train swept the court’s clay.

Such flourishes are dispensed with once a match begins. Osaka, unzipped down to her stock Nike kit, albeit one in gladiatorial gold with an abundance of sequins.

And this is why I find Joint’s look so winsome. She is not, as far as I can tell, sponsored by Oakley. She wears glasses because she needs them.