The 2026 Wimbledon Shoe Report
The 2026 Wimbledon Shoe Report
Off-court releases, small details and reimagined styles grace the grass at this year's Championships.
Off-court releases, small details and reimagined styles grace the grass at this year's Championships.
By Tim NewcombJuly 3, 2026
We likely all know about the “almost entirely white” rules that govern the dress code for players on the grounds of the All England Lawn Tennis Club, home of Wimbledon. (If you’re not up to speed, that’s fine, check out our last year’s Shoe Report for the quick explainer.) Those rules leave little room for flamboyancy in player-edition footwear for the tournament, and that’s exactly how Wimbledon wants it. Add in the fact that most shoemakers aren’t retailing grass-court shoes—you know, the shoes with the nodes on the outsole for traction on the turf—and some of the only zest measured out for Wimbledon footwear comes with accents.
To serve additional flair, brands have started to play around with off-court looks in London, relying on social media when players are out and about to showcase new releases, whether it’s New Balance ensuring Coco Gauff is seen wearing her NB x Miu Miu 530 SLs (not a tennis shoe, mind you), the recent announcement of Converse relaunching the Jack Purcell (also not technically a tennis shoe, but really more tennis than so many out there—I explain it all here), or On’s grass-inspired off-court LDN lineup.
Whether accenting—this year offers a mix of silver, charcoal, green, and yellow—or some unique player designs, including a Serena Williams throwback, there’s more than you’d expect for the Wimbledon 2026 Shoe Report.
Yonex Eclipsion 5
Stan Wawrinka
Yonex athletes are mainly slipping on all-white versions of the Eclipsion 5, with some athletes showcasing the Sonicage or Fusion Rev. While officially white, there’s a small streak of yellow in the sole that shines through. Four Yonex athletes get a player-edition model. Stan Wawrinka has the most impressive mix with the Swiss flag and designs of Big Ben, a kangaroo, and the Eiffel Tower to signify all his major wins. Elena Rybakina has the Kazakhstan flag with motifs of Big Ben and a kangaroo. Casper Ruud (Norway) and Linda Noskova (Czech) get flags on their shoes.
New Balance Coco CG2
Coco Gauff
While New Balance has a green-accented Coco CG2 for retail that ties to the brand’s larger collection around Wimbledon, that’s not what Coco Gauff is wearing during the tournament. Instead, Gauff is donning a special black-accented CG2 matching her NB x Miu Miu kit, which doesn’t have any green. Off court, Gauff will wear the NB x Miu Miu 530 SL around London, in either the white or the brown version.
Babolat Jet Mach 4 Wimbledon
Ball Kids
As the official shoe of Wimbledon, Babolat outfits all the ball kids in a special edition Jet Mach 4 Wimbledon shoe. The grass-court-specific outsole, created in conjunction with Michelin (a partner with Babolat since 2002), provides grip for the young ball kids darting around the Wimbledon sward. British player Cam Norrie also wore the special-edition shoe. This year’s Jet Mach 4 Wimbledon features a black accent, and it’s one of the only performance grass shoes available at retail.
Adidas players have a “clean white colorway with subtle silver detailing to complement the on-court apparel collection,” Annette Steingass, a senior director of specialty sports at adidas, tells me. The German brand hasn’t done player-edition models for years at any tennis tournament and isn’t starting now, instead bringing out the Barricade, Defiant Speed, Avacourt, and Adizero Ubersonic in a design meant to match the new Climacool+ apparel fabric. Before the tourney, adidas released a London-inspired colorway of the Barricade 14 in green, purple, and yellow to pay homage to a classic grass-court event.
Three different K-Swiss models—the Ultrashot 4, Hypercourt Pinnacle, and K-Frame Speed Rublo—come in all-white versions with a charcoal accent. American Frances Tiafoe—still not an official K-Swiss athlete—will again get his player-edition model of the Ultrashot 4 in an accent matching his Lululemon apparel and with a “Big Foe” logo on the side of the shoe.
Serena Williams had to dip back into her personal footwear collection for her comeback. Having last played competitively in 2022, Williams made her comeback in versions of Nike’s Air Zoom Vapor X. While she opted for a few different colorways in the lead-up, she was in all white for her return to the main draw of Wimbledon.
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We are seeing all-white grass versions with black accents of The Roger Pro 3 and The Roger Pro Fire across On athletes, from Ben Shelton to Joao Fonseca to Iga Swiatek. With no retail release planned for the models, On launched new grass-inspired models of the Roger Centre Court LDN lifestyle shoe and a The Roger Pro LDN colorway of the brand’s original performance shoe.
Aryna Sabalenka has her own dress for Wimbledon, so her shoes match. Instead of the green-accented shoes most Nike athletes are wearing (or the red, bloodstained version Jannik Sinner played in for his first-round match), Sabalenka has black accents on her Nike Zoom NXT shoes.
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Naomi Osaka wore special NO-logo-adorned GP Challenge shoes from Nike. The white shoes with black accents included her logo on the tongue.
All Wilson athletes—including Alex de Minaur and Marta Kostyuk—are wearing all-white grass versions of either the men’s Rush Tour 5 or the women’s Intrigue Tour. The shoes do have green accents.
Asics has a faded silver accent on its three popular performance models, including Belinda Bencic in the Solution Speed FF 4.
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