Footwear and Equipment the Pros Use on the Courts
Part of the reason that tennis players get their tennis clothes, equipment and footwear from different sources is that only a few vendors make all three. The few that do are industry giants like Wilson. To attempt to become a one-stop shop in the sport of tennis means taking the economic risk of trying to compete against these well established companies.
Even a corporate behemoth like Nike, which supplies golfer Tiger Woods his clubs, balls, apparel and footwear, does not do the equivalent for tennis players
This formerly top-ranked player is living proof that you do not have to be named Biff and wear topsiders to wear Lacoste clothing. The company known for its iconic crocodile logo (it's actually not an alligator) and inspiring the Preppy Handbook over thirty years ago supplies tennis clothes to Roddick.
As for his tennis racquet and shoes, Roddick gets those from Babolat. If you go to their website, they have an interesting novelty featuring Roddick and done in conjunction with Google Maps.
Roddick makes the claim that his Propulse 3 shoes allow him to move so quickly that he can move to any address you enter and outrace a tennis ball sent to that location. After you enter an address, a few seconds later, Roddick appears in the middle of the street you specified waiting for the ball to come down from the sky, which he promptly returns. Definitely one of the more creative uses of mapping and animation.
Currently the world's top-ranked player, Djokovic is known for some controversy with a former sponsor a few years ago. In 2008 at Wimbledon,
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Adidas had sponsored Djokovic from the time he turned pro in 2003 until 2009. During that time he wore Adidas clothing and footwear,
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Shortly afterward, Djokovic signed a ten year deal to wear Sergio Tacchini clothing. He continues to wear Adidas shoes, while his racquet is a Head YouTek IG Speed MP. Fans of Djokovic can purchase Head equipment bags bearing his name.
It would be improper to exclude Sharapova from any discussion about what tennis players wear. Few tennis players are as marketable as she is,
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Presently the second ranked player in the world, Sharapova wears Nike tennis clothes and footwear. She is in the third year of an eight year deal with Nike and has a line of tennis apparel named after her. For many years, she played with Prince racquets, but recently she switched to Head and plays with the YouTek Radical Midplus.
Just as you cannot exclude Maria Sharapova from a discussion about tennis clothing, you also cannot exclude Serena Williams either. Until Sharapova rose to fame, it could be argued that Williams was the most marketable female tennis player as she too had numerous endorsements.
The winner of 27 Grand Slam titles in her career, Williams is currently under an apparel and footwear contract with Nike,
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