### Clue: One of the favourites started in formal attire alright but has nothing on, Victoria!" (8)
### Answer: DJOKOVIC 
 ### Explanation: Definition: One of the favourites
  DJ($$d$$inner $$j$$acket, what one wears,*attire* to a *formal* function) + OK(*alright*,okay) + O(*nothing*,zero) +(*on*) VIC(abbreviation for *$$Vic$$toria*). 
Defn:  Novak, Serbian tennis player, seeded 3rd in this year's Wimbledon men's singles, through to the quarter-finals.