Adidas introduced its SS23 Paris Collection—a high-performance tennis apparel range inspired by clay courts. The world’s best players will wear the 14-piece men’s and women’s collections in upcoming tournaments.
Launching ahead of clay season, the apparel assortment comes in camouflage-style prints in a palette of earthy tones, representing the colors and textures of a clay court’s surface.
Annette Steingass, Senior Director of Tennis & Court Sports Apparel, said: “The clay of Paris is iconic, and so for this season, our aim was to take a fresh approach and use the terrain as inspiration for our apparel design. Playing tennis on clay is unique—the balls bounce differently in hotter temperatures, the pace can be less ferocious, yet the techniques more technical. The players slide on the surface to make ordinarily improbable shots. With its technical design features, this new collection reflects those nuances of the game to serve our athletes and audiences in the best way.”
The collection includes multi-layered garments, including the men’s 2-in-1 shorts and women’s Match Tight and Skirt, which keep players warm in cooler temperatures. The men’s Techfit Tights provide a compressive feel. The long-sleeved tee offers zoned compression sleeves, woven for faster removal of lactic acid build-up in the arm muscles.The men’s FRL Polo and Tee contain a FreeLift construction, a design feature in the arms that allows free movement without the hem riding up during play.
The whole uses Heat.RDY and Aeroready technologies, so the garments help players to feel cool and comfortable during play. Select pieces in the collection, including the women’s MTBR Dress and men’s MTBR Tee, are Made To Be Remade products and the first Adidas has developed an end-of-life solution. Once returned, products are wear assessed to aid the development of future garments.
The SS23 Paris Collection will premiere on-court during the clay season’s tournament by Stefanos Tsitsipas, Garbiñe Muguruza, Felix Auger Aliassime, Dana Mathewson, Maria Sakkari, and Sascha Zverev.
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