{"id":83597,"date":"2025-05-15T13:01:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T17:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=83597"},"modified":"2025-05-15T13:01:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T17:01:32","slug":"nike-aryna-sabalenkas-custom-gear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2025\/05\/15\/nike-aryna-sabalenkas-custom-gear\/","title":{"rendered":"Nike Launches Aryna Sabalenka&#8217;s First Custom Gear To Celebrate World No. 1 Ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aryna Sabalenka was recently recognized as one of Nike&#8217;s top tennis brand ambassadors, and her first custom tennis gear was unveiled.<\/p>\n<p>Sabalenka has collaborated with Nike since the beginning of her tennis career. In 2023, the American sportswear company launched Sabalenka&#8217;s first customized tennis outfit, which she wore during her run to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/category\/us-open\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">US Open<\/a> final.<\/p>\n<p>Sabalenka ended Iga Swiatek&#8217;s stranglehold of the No. 1 ranking towards the end of the 2023 of the season. Although her first stint lasted for a few weeks, she reclaimed that spot last season and finished the year-end No. 1 for the first time. Sabalenka was voted as the 2024 WTA Player of the Year after scooping two Major titles.<\/p>\n<p>This season, Sabalenka has continued from where she left off, reaching a third successive <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/category\/australian-open\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Australian Open<\/a> final and winning two WTA 1000s in recent weeks. Earlier this month, she became the third woman <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2025\/05\/03\/aryna-sabalenka-becomes-3rd-woman-in-wta-history-to-hit-11000-ranking-points\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">to cross the 11000-point mark in the rankings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sabalenka has also experienced a surge in social media numbers. She is the joint-most followed active WTA player on Instagram with 2.8 million followers, a number that grew considerably in the last 12 months thanks to her Grand Slam successes at the Australian Open and US Open. It&#8217;s the clearest indication of her global appeal not just as a tennis pro but also as a public and influential figure in her discipline.<\/p>\n<h2>What does Aryna Sabalenka&#8217;s custom gear look like?<\/h2>\n<p>Nike has now created the Belarusian&#8217;s own custom gear, which is on sale for tennis fans in France. It is a standard-fit black t-shirt made purely of cotton that can be worn both on the court and casually. It is currently available in four sizes and each costs \u20ac34.99.<\/p>\n<p>In its <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.nike.com\/fr\/t\/t-shirt-de-tennis-aryna-pour-Plh127Rs\/IQ6561-010\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">product description<\/a>, Nike&#8217;s release of Sabalenka&#8217;s first custom gear is meant to celebrate her &#8220;incredible rise to the top of world tennis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The front features a striking white print of Sabalenka in a victorious pose with her arms aloft. Her torso is merged with a tiger&#8217;s face which aligns with Sabalenka&#8217;s nickname and tattoo of a tiger. The back of the shirt has Nike&#8217;s logo at the top and Sabalenka&#8217;s full name in stylish lettering at the bottom.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nike just dropped their first Aryna Sabalenka custom gear! \ud83d\udc2f <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/r1pkJNAKe5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/r1pkJNAKe5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bastien Fachan (@BastienFachan) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BastienFachan\/status\/1922993139087798590?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 15, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo Credit: Susan Mullane-USA TODAY Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aryna Sabalenka was recently recognized as one of Nike&#8217;s top tennis brand ambassadors, and her first custom tennis gear was unveiled. Sabalenka has collaborated with Nike since the beginning of her tennis career. In 2023, the American sportswear company launched Sabalenka&#8217;s first customized tennis outfit, which she wore during her run to the US Open [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2341,"featured_media":57075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2,4],"tags":[1766,3185],"class_list":["post-83597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-featured","category-wta","tag-aryna-sabalenka","tag-nike"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83597"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83601,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83597\/revisions\/83601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}