The 2025US OpenShoe Report
The 2025US OpenShoe Report
Bright, bold, and ready for the night.
Bright, bold, and ready for the night.
By Tim NewcombAugust 27, 2025
Standing out in New York City isn’t always easy. Making it happen for the 2025 US Open involves plenty of bright colors and night-ready energy. While only a few athletes have unique player-edition models for the Open in 2025, brands have embraced bold colorways meant to distinguish their collections during the final major of the year.
Novak Djokovic
Asics Court FF 3 Novak ‘Night Energy’
Bold in black. That’s the goal for Asics, which created two unique colorways for the US Open, one for day and one for night. And while Novak Djokovic has his own black-with-prism-gold Court FF 3 Novak to match his all-black Lacoste kit, the entire Asics lineup has a night-ready option at their disposal. Of course, a “24,” also in gold, adorned the heel of the shoes. The brand’s Gel-Resolution X and Solution Speed FF 3 “Night Energy” colorways have the same black as Djokovic, but paired with prism blue. The gold? That’s just for Novak.
Image courtesy of Asics
Image courtesy of Asics
Aryna Sabalenka
Nike Vapor 12 Premium
The world No. 1 on the women’s side has her own special Nike look, and that includes footwear. Aryna Sabalenka is wearing a Nike Vapor 12 Premium with a white base, bright peach accents, and plenty of silver sparkle in the form of starlike designs. A Nike spokesperson says the stars tie to her walk-out apparel and the “elevated flash of New York fashion and nightlife.” When it came to Sabalenka’s second-round contest, a night match on Ashe, her kit and shoes took a turn. Her white-based footwear removed the glistening stars and instead offered a bold black tiger-like striping.
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Coco Gauff
New Balance Coco CG2
New Balance has unified its US Open offerings across the band’s lineup of the Coco CG2 (the signature model for Coco Gauff), its Fresh Foam X CT-Rally v2, and the FuelCell 996v6. For Gauff, she’s in “urgent red and monarch burgundy,” inspired by the kit and shoes she wore when winning her first major victory in New York in 2023. New Balance has also released a nonperformance Coco Delray, borrowing the same colors of bisque and urgent red for women and bisque and monarch burgundy for men.
Image courtesy of New Balance
Image courtesy of New Balance
Frances Tiafoe
K-Swiss Ultrashot 4
Even though Frances Tiafoe doesn’t have a footwear contract since switching to apparel brand Lululemon ahead of the Australian Open, he’s only worn K-Swiss in 2025, a brand creating non-retail footwear models to match his Lululemon kit. The white, red, and blue design is distinct for the brand, with only Tiafoe wearing the colorway.
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Naomi Osaka
Nike GP Challenge 1
Naomi Osaka walked out onto Louis Armstrong wearing bright orange. Her Nike GP Challenge 1 shoes, with her logo on the tongue and rose graphics on the upper, match up with the dress, walk-out gear, and accessories aplenty.
Osaka wowed the footwear world again in the second round, a day match where she debuted an all-purple outfit in a design similar to her orange look. The shoes, though, were different. While the orange version for the night match came rose-inspired, the purple look was a more anime-inspired design with Japanese wording, black flames and Nike logos aplenty.
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Marta Kostyuk
Wilson Intrigue Tour
Wilson calls the color of Marta Kostyuk’s dress “infrared.” Her Intrigue Tour footwear matches, coming in infrared and “tofu.” Not only will Kostyuk wear the bold dress and the accented footwear, other head-to-toe Wilson athletes will have the same footwear options. The women will wear the Intrigue Tour, and the men will wear the Rush Pro 4.5 in infrared, tofu, and black.
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While Carlos Alcaraz’s accidental haircut stole the fashion show, Nike outfitted the five-time major champion in an all-purple kit by Nike to kick off his US Open. That included all-purple shoes. His highly customized shoes styled as Vapor 12s didn’t have the flash of Sabalenka’s design, but instead were player-edition models matching his kit.
Jannik Sinner, like Alcaraz, has a custom Nike kit colorway for the US Open, debuting on Aug. 26 in red with a pair of matching customized GP Challenge 1 shoes.
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On has two models hitting the courts in New York, with Ben Shelton and Iga Swiatek wearing the pink-and-grenadine Roger Pro 2 during night sessions and bright pink during the day. Flavio Cobolli and Joao Fonseca will wear the Roger Pro Fire in black and pink if they hit a night session. No black for the day matches.
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Asics athletes have the Night Energy collection in black, but also white-based colorways for the day matches. From Taylor Fritz to Alex de Minaur to Lorenzo Musetti and Belinda Bencic to Jasmine Paolini, expect a mix of options for Asics athletes.
Speaking of Asics, with Jack Draper switching from Nike to Vuori, he decided to take the opportunity to switch footwear, too. Without a deal with Asics, Draper popped up at the US Open wearing the brand’s Solution Speed FF 3.
Leylah Fernandez, also a Lululemon athlete, has consistently worn K-Swiss this summer. She has bounced around among several brands over the past couple of years but for the US Open is in a white pair of K-Swiss to pair with her all-red kit.
New Balance has a different colorway across its lineup with the Fresh Foam C CT-Rally v2 and FuelCell 996v6. Tommy Paul, Jordan Thompson, and McCartney Kessler have chosen the CT-Rally, with women wearing “sea salt and lime leaf” and the men a reverse with lime leaf leading the sea salt. The FuelCell 996v6, worn by Sorena Cirstea, features “new spruce and white.”
For all the athletes with Nike not given the special treatment, they are choosing between the GP Challenge 1, Vapor Pro 3, and Vapor 12, all in the “bright crimson” colorway.
The adidas Y-3 collection spans the entire adidas roster, from apparel to footwear. The distinct—and at times artistic—apparel is accented by black, white, and silver on the footwear. Along the way, adidas is celebrating the Barricade’s 25th anniversary with a special-edition silver-colored model.
Cam Norrie’s Babolat Jet Mach 3 matches his kit with white and deep red.
Andrey Rublev continues to sport his K-Swiss K-Frame model. For this year’s US Open, that comes in blue to match his kit.
Yonex athletes will sport the 2025 New York Collection of the Eclipsion 5, led by Elena Rybakina and Casper Ruud. The shoes match the white-and-orange kits brand athletes are wearing. Yonex typically adorns a player’s name and country flag to the upper of their players’ footwear.
The Mizuno Wave Enforce Tour 2 and Wave Exceed Tour 6 come in a mix of soft colors for the US Open. The Exceed features white and fiery coral for the men and white and calypso coral for the women. The Enforce model is white and baritone blue for the men and white and Icelandic blue for the women.
The purple Lacoste shoes worn by Daniil Medvedev were short-lived, but they weren’t without drama. As has become custom for the head-to-toe Lacoste athlete, Medvedev’s gaming-inspired logo adorned the shoe (on the heel), with his purple shoes matching his kit during his five-set late-night meltdown.
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