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Busted Racquet: "The chiffon-thingy makes her look like The Little Mermaid circa 1968. Either that or Lillian Gish."
Busted Racquet's fashion plate friend: "It's bad camo negligee."
Forty Deuce: "I'm thinking it was cross-marketing."
Opponent Maria Kirilenko: "It was blue, I think, like POWERade."
Selected reaction from Twitter: @paulavergara: "I'm guessing Sharapova signed off on her dress design over the phone/sight unseen."
@GoToTennis: "As much as I hate Sharapova being upset in the first round - I'm relieved that her dress is out of the tournament."
@ant_cee "Sharapova's AusOpen dress looks like she got caught in some curtains en route to the court."
@exodusrex: "uhm...i was pulling for sharapova tonight, but there's 1 upside to her loss: i don't have to see that dress again."
@alejrocha: "She crashed into a peacock."
@TruBlu: "that hideous dress was a portent of things to come."