What shoes do the WTA’s top ten players play in
Shoes can really make a huge difference to a top player’s performance and almost all of the best players use prominent brands.
Here we take a look at what footwear is favoured by the players who are currently esteemed as the elite women’s tour’s top ten.
10 Daria Kasatkina
Daria Kasatkina is an ADIDAS-backed athlete and has achieved many successes with their product on her feet.
She currently uses the Adidas Women’s Barricade Tennis Shoes.
9 Petra Kvitova
Petra Kvitova is a long-time Nike athlete and wore their shoes in her Grand Slam triumphs.
She wears the footwear most popular with top ten players male and female, the Nike Women’s Air Zoom Vapor choosing the Pro2 variety.
8 Maria Sakkari
The Greek No 1 has enjoyed the backing of ADIDAS for some time meaning that both top players from her country don the German brand.
Sakkari wears the variety of ADIDAS Barricade shoes that the company put out.
7 Coco Gauff
Gauff is a big sneakerhead on top of needing a great tennis shoe and she is the flagship athlete of the New Balance Kids range.
New Balance produce custom tennis shoes for Gauff called the Coco CG1 which is also available commercially.
6 Ons Jabeur
Ons Jabeur is the only WTA Tour top ten player signed with Italian brand Lotto.
She wears their Lotto Women’s Mirage 100 Speed footwear at the moment.
5 Caroline Garcia
Garcia used to sport the Japanese shoe brand ASICS but has since switched to Yonex.
Yone supply both her rackets and her shoes which are the Women’s Eclipsion 4 tennis shoes.
4 Jessica Pegula
Jessica Pegula is the American No 1 but she isn’t signed to America’s No 1 shoemaker.
Pegula has gone abroad and uses the very popular ADIDAS Barricade tennis shoe.
3 Elena Rybakina
Rybakina is signed with German sportswear giants ADIDAS who supply her shoes.
As of the 2023 season she wears Adidas Avacourt tennis shoes, donning the white pair for her Wimbledon title defence.
2 Aryna Sabalenka
Aryna Sabalenka has also been backed by Nike for some time.
She wears the Nike Court Zoom NXT in competition at the moment.
1 Iga Swiatak
The World No 1 has a head-to-toe sponsorship from On Sports but she hasn’t changed her shoes just yet.
She has instead opted to wear Asics’ Gel-Resolution 9 sneakers during her run to the French Open title.
