{"id":277076,"date":"2025-11-07T10:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T10:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/277076\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T10:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T10:43:10","slug":"coco-gauff-and-aryna-sabalenka-face-off-in-new-balance-nike-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/277076\/","title":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff and Aryna Sabalenka Face Off in New Balance, Nike Shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tTwo of this year\u2019s Grand Slam winners, Coco Gauff<\/a> and Aryna Sabalenka, faced off during the WTA Finals in Riyadh on Thursday, with their respective athletic brand partners supporting their fast footwork.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"A<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tA closer look at the shoes worn by Coco Gauff<\/a> and Aryna Sabalenka.<\/p>\n

\n\t21-year-old Gauff, who won the French Open this year, has been with New Balance<\/a> since 2018; the 27-year-old Sabalenka, winner of 2025\u2019s U.S. Open, signed with Nike<\/a> in 2017. Gauff sported her second signature shoe, the Coco CG2, while Sabalenka wore the Nike<\/a> Vapor 12.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"RIYADH,<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tCoco Gauff <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAnadolu via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\n\tGauff competed in a white and blue-accented version of the CG2, which features a mid-cut silhouette, unconventional among tennis<\/a> shoes, and a dual-density FuelCell midsole outfitted with a carbon fiber plate. Her second signature shoe with New Balance<\/a> was released in August 2024, following the first shoe in 2022.<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, Sabalenka played in one of the two exclusive Vapor 12 pairs she\u00a0showcased at the U.S. Ope<\/a>n, which references her \u201cTiger\u201d nickname. The set she wore on Thursday features an edgy black and white design, while the other pair has silver stars; both pairs make use of pink and white and feature a tiger on the tongue. She also showcased custom tiger-themed shoes at the Australian Open this year.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"RIYADH,<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tAryna Sabalenka <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGetty Images for WTA<\/p>\n

\n\tIn Thursday\u2019s WTA Finals matchup, Sabalenka beat Gauff, meaning the Belarusian will face Amanda Anisimova, while Jessica Pegula will play Elena Rybakina in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"RIYADH,<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tAryna Sabalenka and Coco Gauff<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGetty Images for WTA<\/p>\n

\n\tNo matter the outcome, Gauff and Sabalenka competed in the tournament as they qualified as two of the top eight Women\u2019s Tennis<\/a> Association singles players. And the brand connections of such elite players are powerful \u2014\u00a0with the U.S. Open generating $810 million in media exposure<\/a>, Nike was the brand leading the pack with $9.4 million in MIV.<\/p>\n

\n\tGauff worked with New Balance and Miu Miu on a buzzy tennis-inspired capsule which released in September. She will be honored with the Style Influencer of the Year award at the 2025 Footwear News Achievement Awards while New Balance and Miu Miu will receive the Collaboration of the Year award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two of this year\u2019s Grand Slam winners, Coco Gauff and Aryna Sabalenka, faced off during the WTA Finals…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[5113,62694,13218,99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-277076","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-coco-gauff","9":"tag-new-balance","10":"tag-nike","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}