The 2026 Roland-Garros Shoe Report
The 2026 Roland-Garros Shoe Report
Our favorites for performance, lifestyle, and everything in between.
Our favorites for performance, lifestyle, and everything in between.
By Tim NewcombMay 28, 2026
Pink, purple, and pastel power Paris footwear in 2026. Roland-Garros traditionally offers the most intriguing mix of colors across the four majors, with the red brick presenting a distinct backdrop for the sport’s design leaders to play on. For this year’s second major, brands have embraced pastel colors, including soft tones of purple, while dipping into boldness by way of powerful pinks. Of course, with so many footwear brands now in the tennis fray, fans can still expect some bold blue, stark red, and just about every color they want as footwear collections offer variety aplenty at the 2026 edition of the French Open.
New Balance Coco CG2
Coco Gauff
New Balance celebrates its brand’s Grey Days each May, and that has traditionally spilled into Roland-Garros for Coco Gauff’s signature sneaker, the Coco CG2. This year, the gray-heavy design features a bit of “faded black” and touches of faded pink across the outsole, giving her an unmatched look across the tournament to pair with her personalized apparel.
Yonex Power Cushion Eclipsion 5 Clay
Elena Rybakina
Yonex athletes have a range of colors to choose from when picking their Power Cushion Eclipsion 5 Clay choice, but athletes such as Elena Rybakina and Casper Ruud continue to have an extra level of personalization. Rybakina wore a “ruby red” shoe with her name added to the side. Ruud was in a “silver orange” design, also with his name, while Marketa Vondrousova was in the “pale blue” colorway.
Nike GP Challenge 1.5
Jannik Sinner & Naomi Osaka
Naomi Osaka has placed her focus squarely on her walk-on outfits. Her shoes, then, have taken a bit of a back seat. Her Nike GP Challenge 1.5 shoes are still personalized, though, with her “NO” logo on the tongue. Sinner played the final first-round match of the tournament in the GP Challenge 1.5, his in a light blue design matching his personalized kit. Sinner’s on-court shoes from Nike haven’t been overly interesting from a design perspective, but his trophy presentation in Rome offered one of his most intriguing footwear moments.
On The Roger Pro Fire
Iga Swiatek
Iga Swiatek is in a “bloom | black” colorway of The Roger Pro Fire, but her model is custom-made for her. The shoe features plenty of purple on the upper with pink on the tongue and accents of black, all matching her mainly purple On apparel kit.
K-Swiss K-Frame Speed Rublo
Andrey Rublev
K-Swiss is one of the leaders in special player-edition models and again gives Andrey Rublev his K-Frame Speed Rublo in a distinct model for Roland-Garros. K-Swiss went more subdued with the colorway this spring, opting for a white-based design with touches of reds and grays.
Lacoste AG-LT Ultra
DANIIL MEDVEDEV
The head-to-toe Lacoste athlete dons his AG-LT Ultra shoes in a special player-edition design featuring his gaming-inspired logo. For Roland-Garros this year, Medvedev was in a light-blue kit, with the shoes to match. It was a one-round wonder, though.
Frances Tiafoe, still without an official K-Swiss deal, is again wearing the K-Swiss Killshot 4 with a small “Big Foe” logo on the side of the upper. The blue-based shoe has white accents to match his Lululemon apparel.
Alex de Minaur anchored Wilson’s big signing class of 2026, but the Australian didn’t switch to the footwear for the Australian Open. He’s now wearing the Wilson Rush 5 franchise for the clay season, completing the final steps of his Wilson 360 deal, wearing the brand from head to toe while sporting a Wilson racquet.
Emma Raducanu, who lasted only two sets at Roland-Garros, was sporting new footwear in her first major with Uniqlo. Raducanu wore Wilson’s Intrigue footwear lineup, a women’s-specific model.
As a whole, Wilson’s colorway in play at Roland-Garros for both the men’s Rush and women’s Intrigue features a white base with a gum sole and navy accents.
IMAGE COURTESY OF WILSON
Additional On athletes, such as Ben Shelton and Joao Fonseca, are wearing The Roger Pro 3 Clay in “thistle | pink,” which is basically a mix of purple and pink.
Aryna Sabalenka not only has her custom-made Nike dress, but she’s wearing a discontinued Nike Zoom NXT sneaker, back to her favorite shoe over the past few years. The white-and-black sneaker matches her custom kit.
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Asics has continued to focus its special-edition collections on apparel for 2026, offering up exclusivity for Jasmine Paolini and Belinda Bencic, keeping the footwear on brand with the in-line colorways based in white with soft accenting.
IMAGE COURTESY OF ASICS
Mizuno went red and pink for Roland-Garros, with the men wearing fiery red and white in the Wave Enforce Tour 2 and Wave Exceed Tour 7, and the women in white and “pinkesque.”
IMAGE COURTESY OF MIZUNO
The larger New Balance collection features “pink heat” with black. This is a bold look for the New Balance players in the Fresh Foam X CT-Rally v2 and the FuelCell 996v6. Both footwear options pair with pink, white, and black apparel seen across the tournament on athletes such as Tommy Paul.
Nike took inspiration from ballet and offered a wide array of footwear colors for Roland-Garros, including a range of pinks, violets, grays, and other pastels matching dark accents.
Adidas, still a stranger to special player-edition tennis models, has embraced blue for Paris this year. The footwear largely features a white-based shoe with navy and light-blue accents.
Reilly Opelka, now wearing Sease clothing, switched back to New Balance for his footwear. He’s in the clay season “pink heat” colorway, with New Balance making him custom sneakers based on the unique requirements of the 6-foot-11 player.
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