A fun fact about me is that I enjoyed a brief but illustrious tennis career in my youth.
Okay, not really illustrious, but definitely brief.
Meaning? I played tennis my freshman year of high school. I wasn’t any good, and I never really learned the rules. But I liked the outfits, and it was something to do after school.
I got paired up with a girl I’d gone to grade school with — let’s call her Sarah Remingtonbottomsworth — for doubles. Sarah lived in the ritzy neighborhood that a bully wearing a popped collar in a 1980s John Hughes movie would have hailed from, and could have been really stuck-up because she was tall, blonde, and her parents were rich, but somehow wasn’t.
She had been playing tennis for years at her country club (naturally) and was an accomplished singles player. She didn’t need me or doubles, but Sarah Remingtonbottomsworth was nothing if not an overachiever. So we spent the season plodding through matches with her doing most of the work.
Our sophomore year, she made the varsity squad, and I decided team sports weren’t really my speed. But we’d sit together when we found ourselves in the same class, and I think of her fondly when I see her on LinkedIn today hawking Rodan + Fields.
I was waxing nostalgic about my tennis era this weekend while watching Wimbledon, when tennis players like Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner took to the grass courts in Nike gear that brought me right back to freshman year.
Their Wimbledon outfits featured a throwback logo from the brand, a small white swoosh across a red and blue court.
Turns out, the brand brought this logo back as part of a collection created specifically for the London Grand Slam….and for my nostalgia-fueled fashion dreams.
Love the look but don’t play the sport?
Don’t worry. You don’t need a 145-mile serve to wear these clothes. They look just as good off the court (grass or otherwise) as they do on.
