The 2025WimbledonShoe Report
The 2025WimbledonShoe Report
Shocking news: green is a popular accent color.
Shocking news: green is a popular accent color.
By Tim NewcombJuly 3, 2025
Let’s face it: shoe fashion at Wimbledon largely comes down to the accent color. And hopefully you like green, because no matter your shade of green—here’s looking at you, “apple green” from New Balance—it’s the dominant accent to go with the all-whites of the Wimbledon 2025 edition.
The tradition of all-white attire at Wimbledon has only strengthened over time. The tournament first went “predominately in white” with its dress code in 1963. As players—or should we say brands?—have tried to defy the rules, the tournament has only doubled down, creating an even stricter version of their dress code in 1995, when “predominately” white became “almost entirely” white.
But things didn’t stop there. In 2014, The Championships included accessories in the predominantly white dress code. As per the current code, the “10-point rule” “refers to all clothing, including tracksuits and sweaters, worn on The Championship courts both for practice and for matches.” (In a rare show of flexibility, the tournament has since allowed women to wear black undershorts.)
By white, Wimbledon means white. That “does not include off-white or cream” and the back of the apparel must be “completely white.” While there’s no allowance for a solid mass or panel of coloring, Wimbledon allows a single trim of color around the neckline and the cuff of the sleeves—no wider than one centimeter, mind you—and small sponsor logos may contain colors. Accordingly, that’s exactly where you generally see dabs of color on the shoes: in the logo.
Last year’s shoes typically led with black as the main accent color with green a close second and gold a distant third. In 2025, green (think New Balance, Adidas, K-Swiss, Wilson and Novak Djokovic), and black (Asics, Nike, On, Lotto and Yonex) vied for most popular accent color, while gold (Babolat) held down a third-place role. Let’s explore some of what we’ve seen in Wimbledon footwear this year.
Coco Gauff
New Balance Coco CG2 White and Green Apple
New Balance has been crushing the footwear style game via Coco Gauff this year. We’ve seen a fun marsh green and yellow version for Australia, a “grey days” version for Roland Garros and some Miu Miu designs sprinkled in along the way. For Wimbledon, Gauff is sporting the “white and green apple” colorway of the Coco CG2. The other New Balance silhouettes will follow the colorway form—for example, Tommy Paul will be wearing the CT-Rally in the same colors—providing what the brand calls a “simple and refined design” for the grass courts.
Image courtesy of New Balance
Image courtesy of New Balance
Novak Djokovic
Asics Court FF 3 Novak
Novak Djokovic is hoping that the “24” that adorns his major tennis footwear from Asics can turn into a 25 during Wimbledon. For now, though, his Asics Court FF 3 Novak footwear includes his logo on the tongue and heel and the special 24 near the heel signifying his number of major titles. Like last season, Djokovic’s Wimbledon colorway is white with green accents, while the remainder of Asics athletes will go with white and black or silver.
Image courtesy of Asics
Image courtesy of Asics
Wimbledon Ball Kids
Babolat Jet Tere 2
Bablot may provide the most color choice across the brands at Wimbledon, with different shoe silhouettes offering differing colors, such as the blue and gold on the Jet Tere, green on the Propulse, gold on the SFX and Cam Norrie leading the Jet Mach 3 with silver accents. The Wimbledon ball kids get outfitted in Babolat each year, and in 2025 the Jet Tere 2 comes in white with gold and blue.
Image courtesy of Babolat
Image courtesy of Babolat
Daniil Medvedev
Lacoste AG-LT 23 x Daniil Medvedev
It was all white and black for Daniil Medvedev for the 2025 Wimbledon, which lasted only four sets for the Russian. The pinnacle Lacoste tennis performance shoe gets the player edition treatment each time for Medvedev with his gamer-inspired logo adorning the shoe (it’s also on the hem of his polo).
Image courtesy of Lacoste
Images courtesy of Lacoste
Naomi Osaka
Nike GP Challenge 1
We’ll have to wait and see if the U.S. Open offers up another Naomi Osaka flower-filled GP Challenge 1, as Osaka’s Wimbledon shoes feature black accents only, including her personalized “NO” logo on the tongue.
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While adidas has made a habit of not doing anything special on the shoes for its tennis athletes, the 2025 Wimbledon colorway features green accents, as worn by some of the top players in the world (though they are paired with a handsome Originals-inspired kit).
Carlos Alcaraz had player-edition shoes for Wimbeldon 2024 and even some unique Alcaraz-specific logos on his Nike shoes for Roland Garros just a few weeks ago, but his Wimbledon shoes remain void of the special treatment, sticking with the white and black the brand chose for this year.
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Aryna Sabalenka, who had a tiger logo on both her Australian Open and Roland Garros shoes, was void of anything special for Wimbledon 2025, except for the fact she’s still playing in the discontinued Nike Zoom Nxt (she did have special-edition bags from both Wilson and Nike, with the Nike version featuring a cool tiger logo).
On continues to outfit Iga Swiatek, Ben Shelton and Joao Fonseca. On doesn’t create special designs for each player, and this year’s Wimbledon looks went white and black.
A pair of Lululemon athletes—Frances Tiafoe and Leylah Fernandez—don’t have shoe deals and are wearing K-Swiss for Wimbledon, with white and black and white and green the options for the players. The new K-Frame Speed Rublo designed in partnership with Andrey Rublev is also in play. Tiafoe does not have a deal with a footwear brand, but has worn K-Swiss since switching to Lululemon ahead of the Australian Open. Fernandez, also a sneaker free agent, has been wearing her dad’s unreleased Aesem Athletica brand for all tournaments in 2025, except on the grass.
Yonex athletes typically get special treatment with their name and country flag adorned on their sneakers. This Wimbledon, most Yonex athletes will don a white and black version of the Eclipsion 5.
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