{"id":745067,"date":"2026-08-21T11:36:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T11:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/745067\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T11:36:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T11:36:35","slug":"the-18-most-stylish-mens-tennis-players-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/745067\/","title":{"rendered":"The 18 Most Stylish Men\u2019s Tennis Players of All Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The term \u201cmen\u2019s tennis style\u201d tends to conjure the classics: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/best-short-shorts-for-men\" class=\"text link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">short shorts<\/a> with silver waist tabs, white <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/best-stuff-polos\" class=\"text link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">polo shirt<\/a> with a discreet logo on the chest, and maybe a terry cloth headband with a navy or green cheat-line through the middle. It\u2019s a look with its roots in the Victorian era, but plenty of places around the world still maintain this traditional image (one big example: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq.com\/gallery\/wimbledon-2026-celebrity-style\" class=\"text link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wimbledon<\/a>, the London-based Slam, requires an all-white dress code).<\/p>\n<p>But peer beyond the surface fuzz, and there\u2019s far more nuance to on-court style. For decades, male tennis players have added their own stamps of flair and flourish to varying degrees, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/dropping-knowledge-the-polo-shirt\" class=\"text link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ren\u00e9 Lacoste<\/a>\u2019s pragmatism in the 1920s (more on him shortly) to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/andre-agassi-hair\" class=\"text link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andre Agassi<\/a>\u2019s rebel-child <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/best-denim-shorts-for-men\" class=\"text link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">jorts<\/a> of the 1990s (more on him, too).<\/p>\n<p>Arguably, while prior eras had their characters, the 2000s were when the diversification of men\u2019s tennis style accelerated. \u201cSince <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/roger-federer-gq-hype\" class=\"text link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roger Federer<\/a>\u2019s dabbling in the world of higher fashion, the floodgates for who gets to be interested in style have really opened in men\u2019s tennis,\u201d says Caitlin Thompson, co-founder and publisher of the tennis lifestyle publication <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/racquetmag.com\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/racquetmag.com&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/racquetmag.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Racquet<\/a>. \u201cLooking past current brand partnerships\u2014though Lorenzo Musetti for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/bottega-veneta-louise-trotter-debut\" class=\"text link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bottega Veneta<\/a> and Stefanos Tsitsipas in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/how-loro-piana-makes-its-polo-shirts\" class=\"text link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Loro Piana<\/a> cape are elite examples\u2014we now have a larger group of players who feel like they can experiment with style in a more overt way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Below, our list of the best, most notable, and most standout men\u2019s tennis style fixtures.<\/p>\n<p>Ren\u00e9 Lacoste<\/p>\n<p>Ren\u00e9 Lacoste\u2014oui, of the surname-eponymous, crocodile-emblazoned label currently repped by the likes of Novak Djokovic and Daniil Medvedev\u2014broke the mold in the 1920s. Tired of the long-sleeve shirts and pleated trousers that had until then been the men\u2019s tennis norm, he shortened his sleeves into what would ultimately become the iconic Lacoste polo shirt as we know it today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The term \u201cmen\u2019s tennis style\u201d tends to conjure the classics: short shorts with silver waist tabs, white polo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":745068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[6767,6768,101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-745067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-rafael-nadal","tag-roger-federer","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/745068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}