U.S. OPEN, PART I: WILLIAMS SISTERS BRING FASHION POINTERS

          Reebok will announce its new line of Venus Williams-
     inspired tennis wear today at the Vertical Club in
     Manhattan, according to NEWSDAY's fashion writer Anne
     Bratskeir.  Reebok is "one of many" companies recognizing
     the "fashion potency of a totally hip new posse of young,
     top-ranked women tennis players, who are captivating fans
     and nonfans alike with their power play and their power
     dressing on and off the courts.  Not since the bandanna-
     clad, earring-in-one-ear, intentionally mismatched Andre
     Agassi strutted his zany, Nike stuff on the court has so
     much ado been made out of tennis fashion."  In addition to
     her "boldly colored new Reebok line," Venus has "dazzled"
     fans with a metallic-silver tennis dress, while Serena 
     "stunned" a French Open crowd with her "swimsuit-inspired
     Puma T-strapped dress, which emphasized her sculpted body." 
     Puma has developed a new line for Serena that will debut in
     tennis specialty stores this spring (NEWSDAY, 8/27).