The Roland-Garros 2025
Shoe Report
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Roland-Garros
2025
Shoe Report
The Fashion Slam brings colorful footwear into play.
The Fashion Slam brings colorful footwear into play.
By Tim Newcomb
May 30, 2025
Let’s coin Roland-Garros the Fashion Slam. That includes the footwear, especially as brands experiment with color anew each spring in Paris.
While the Happy Slam kicks off tennis’ major calendar each January in Australia, often with bold, summer-forward kits, for Roland-Garros, brands typically welcome an array of springtime colors and graphics, and generally roll out fresh takes on on-court tennis fashion. Whether it’s Nike mixing in a bounty of different footwear options for players on the red brick, Wilson offering up a classic colorway for sponsored players, New Balance giving athletes a gray-focused approach, or custom touches throughout the tournament, Roland-Garros showcases a diverse and fashion-forward collection of footwear befitting its Paris address (even if some of the best examples were one-round wonders).
Carlos Alcaraz
Nike Vapor 12
The fully customized Carlos Alcaraz shoes from Nike—cast as a Nike Vapor 12—give the four-time major winner his own colorway within the Nike family. The largely black, white, and light blue sneakers match his kit and include a small red logo on each heel.
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Getty
Andrey Rublev
K-Swiss K-Frame Speed Rublo
K-Swiss hasn’t yet launched the brand-new K-Frame Speed Rublo, designed in conjunction with Andrey Rublev, but the world No. 15 is sporting the shoe that will launch July 1. In Paris, his version is yellow and black.
Images courtesy of K-Swiss
Images courtesy of K-Swiss
Coco Gauff
New Balance CG2
Each May, New Balance celebrates the brand’s “Grey Days.” Coco Gauff’s signature shoe joined the mix with the Coco CG2 x Roland Garros, where the gray steps back to reveal the “linen” and “dusk shower” light blue. The grayed-out linen color features true gray on the outsole and heel, and the blue-gray dusk shower tone is seen in the midsole and the “N” logo. New Balance says Gauff “wanted a mix of a coastal vibe with a French Parisian style” while opting for a “classic and mature” design.
Image courtesy of New Balance
Image courtesy of New Balance
Novak Djokovic
Asics Court FF3 Novak
There’s a color update for Novak Djokovic and the 2025 clay season. For Roland-Garros, the Asics Court FF 3 Novak goes white and “electric red” while including the Djokovic logo.
Images courtesy of Asics
Images courtesy of Asics
Naomi Osaka
Nike GP Challenge 1
One of the best colorways of the tournament lasted only three sets. Nike and Naomi Osaka continued the pair’s 2025 flower theme for Roland-Garros, offering up a GP Challenge 1 in a “Sakura” design (cherry blossom), full of four different pink shades across the shoe. Paired with white, the pink cherry blossoms matched Osaka’s kit. “Spring is Sakura season,” Osaka wrote on Instagram before the tournament. “The girlies are gonna love this one.”
Images courtesy of Nike
Images courtesy of Nike
Marta Kostyuk
Wilson Intrigue
In another example that didn’t make it out of round 1, Marta Kostyuk’s Wilson Intrigue colorway is fortunately not tied to just her model. The Wilson footwear line, inspired by the colors seen “on an afternoon in Paris during clay season,” features the Intrigue and Rush models with a white base and classic striping of red, orange, yellow, green, and blue. Possibly the best touch, though, is the scrumptious gum sole.
Images courtesy of Wilson
Images courtesy of Wilson
Yonex players are mostly in the Eclipsion 5 clay version, with “ink blue” for men and “dark navy” for women. In a fun touch from the Japanese brand, sponsored players typically have their name and country’s flag included on the upper.
The mainline Nike options for Roland-Garros feature two key colorways. One is, according to the brand, dusty cactus, pale ivory, metallic silver, and dark team red, while the other is deep night, pale ivory, metallic silver, and light crimson, including World No. 1 Jannik Sinner finally switching to a Nike Zoom GP Challenge 1. Both options come with a silver-accented, Paris-inspired tongue logo and a metallic silver lace tag.
adidas has five different models hitting the red brick of Roland-Garros, with the Barricade, Defiant Speed 2, Ubersonic 5, Cybersonic, and Avacourt 2. Throughout it all, adidas embraced neon yellow, although black is also an option for the athletes.
Speaking of neon yellow, On outfitted its players—Joao Fonseca, Ben Shelton and Iga Swiatek—in a “lime” and “limelight” colorway of the Roger Pro 2 Clay.
Sneaker free agent Frances Tiafoe continues to wear K-Swiss, and this tournament his K-Swiss Ultrashot 4s match his blue Lululemon kit.
Reilly Opelka has an all-pink Fila Axilus 3 Energized, breaking away from the white-based colorway most Fila-sponsored players are wearing.
Daniil Medvedev wore a dark blue and purple player-edition model of his Lacoste AG-LT shoes during his first-round loss that featured his name on the tongue.
Babolat players are opting between orange and black footwear options in Paris.
While Leylah Fernandez lasted only one round this year, she is continuing to wear her father’s unreleased Aesem Athletica shoe.
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