{"id":495014,"date":"2026-02-23T22:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T22:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/495014\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T22:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T22:51:09","slug":"tennis-player-emma-raducanu-expected-to-leave-nike-sign-deal-with-uniqlo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/495014\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis player Emma Raducanu expected to leave Nike, sign deal with Uniqlo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/VQNNH4RXUYB6BQATRFYJ5TUPUA.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>Emma Raducanu has \u201cworn Nike since she was a teenager and signed an extension\u201d with the brand after winning the US Open in 2021. Getty Images <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-marketing-and-sponsorship \">World No. 25 tennis player Emma Raducanu is expected to \u201cleave Nike and sign a new clothing deal with Uniqlo.\u201d Uniqlo on Monday put out a \u201cteaser post: a picture of the body of a female tennis player with the caption: \u2018We\u2019re proud to welcome a new face.\u2019\u201d Although the player\u2019s face is \u201cnot visible, the player in question is understood to be Raducanu.\u201d Raducanu will be joining a \u201cvery exclusive group,\u201d as Uniqlo has not sponsored many players on the main tours but the short list includes Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Kei Nishikori (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/tennis\/2026\/02\/23\/emma-raducanu-new-sponsor-leaves-nike-uniqlo-announcement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">London TELEGRAPH, 2\/23<\/a>). Raducanu has \u201cworn Nike since she was a teenager and signed an extension\u201d with the brand after winning the US Open in 2021. Any announcement from Raducanu could \u201ccome ahead of her next appearance\u201d at Indian Wells at the start of March (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/sport\/tennis\/emma-raducanu-uniqlo-nike-clothing-sponsor-2026-b2925977.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">London INDEPENDENT, 2\/23<\/a>). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Raducanu has \u201cworn Nike since she was a teenager and signed an extension\u201d with the brand after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,1639,82,593],"class_list":["post-495014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-deals","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}