Kei Nishikori thread information gear

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Nice purple shirt! Always surprised that apparently Uniqlo are not willing to change their logo colour, especially considering how unstylish the logo is, to blend into the outfits better. I guess they want to maximise brand exposure but it’s visually unappealing and looks way to matchy matchy poser on a non pro. There’s still no attempt to replace or even reduce the red squares with or to an elegant icon, like the swoosh, instead of plastering their basic branding all over.
They’re also ignoring the marketing trick that established brands often use whereby they deliberately downplay the logo on some releases as if to say ‘we’re iconic now, everybody knows us’, but I guess that’s difficult with such unevolved iconography.
 
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jmacdaununder2 said:
Nice purple shirt! Always surprised that apparently Uniqlo are not willing to change their logo colour - especially considering how unstylish the logo is - to blend into the outfits better. I guess they want to maximise brand exposure but it’s visually unappealing and looks way to matchy matchy poser on a non pro.
They’re also ignoring the marketing trick that established brands often use whereby they deliberately downplay the logo on some releases as if to say ‘we’re iconic now, everybody knows us’.
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The retail version has no logo - its just on there for Nishikori being sponsored
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Yes exactly! They’re not plastering logos all over their non tennis specific retail gear, so why the retail tennis gear?
It may be so that you can ‘wear what the pros wear’ but many consumers are conservative and shy away from that.
 
jmacdaununder2 said:
Yes exactly! They’re not plastering logos all over their non tennis specific retail gear, so why the retail tennis gear?
It may be so that you can ‘wear what the pros wear’ but many consumers are conservative and shy away from that.
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Yeah I think its because the match gear is intended as a replica of what he's wearing in the tournament etc... The Federer JW Anderson line just has two small red squares on the shirt sleeve and the shorts much more subtly - but I think you know you either get people complaining about the logos or you get people complaining the logos are in different places or smaller etc... and arent the same as he wore so its kinda lose lose whichever way you do it.
 
Babolast said:
Is Kei playing the French?
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Last I heard....no. He's out with an injury I believe. He hasn't played since Miami. Even if he was healthy, he would still need some help in the form of a wildcard due to his current rank being too low for both the qualifying and the main draw.
 
Gemini said:
Last I heard....no. He's out with an injury I believe. He hasn't played since Miami. Even if he was healthy, he would still need some help in the form of a wildcard due to his current rank being too low for both the qualifying and the main draw.
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Looks like Nishikori is somewhat healthy and was granted wildcard. I watched his match versus Diallo today.
 
Hopefully Kei wears the orange in his next match. I equally like the green but I think the orange suits the clay courts more.
US Open wise the white shirt looks nice but not a fan of the black/grey. Would have preferred something yellow or vibrant blue for USO.
 
Even the practice kits look better than what’s on offer elsewhere.
Perhaps the rounded ‘beach short’ hemline of the shorts doesn’t gel 100% with the Henley collar, but overall a great effort, although not something I’d wear as a non pro player.
Seems to be an obsession this year with ‘clay‘ coloured outfits. As visible here contrast has always worked much better; hematochezia like reddy/brown isn’t up there on my desirable colours list either.
 
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Rampart said:
Already released, it's the polos he's been wearing this week in white and black although they haven't released the green version. It's just called Dry-Ex polo shirt on the site and it's $15 currently
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The green one looks good. Retail versions’ colours are horrible.
 
Rampart said:
Already released, it's the polos he's been wearing this week in white and black although they haven't released the green version. It's just called Dry-Ex polo shirt on the site and it's $15 currently
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Bummer. Was hoping for a different design for the Open, and seems like there's a lack of shorts too.
 
What's the closest racket to Nishikori's current racket (not the 95 tour 16x20 that he used to use)? I heard some rumors that it might be like a Wilson H25. Anything available in retail that's similar?
 
patrickluvsoj said:
What's the closest racket to Nishikori's current racket (not the 95 tour 16x20 that he used to use)? I heard some rumors that it might be like a Wilson H25. Anything available in retail that's similar?
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hard to say without knowing what it is exactly... just guess work til there are concrete specs - I suspect its along the lines of the Steam or perhaps the T-Fight from what we know of it
 
patrickluvsoj said:
What's the closest racket to Nishikori's current racket (not the 95 tour 16x20 that he used to use)? I heard some rumors that it might be like a Wilson H25. Anything available in retail that's similar?
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The H25 is the Head Instinct clone, so it is not that. I had mentioned in the other thread, this racket is 27.85in, 98 sq in, throat is not similar to the nTour95, it is thinner.

I’ve been wondering if an Ultra Tour 100 without PWS is a similar racket.
 
lidoazndiabloboi said:
The H25 is the Head Instinct clone, so it is not that. I had mentioned in the other thread, this racket is 27.85in, 98 sq in, throat is not similar to the nTour95, it is thinner.

I’ve been wondering if an Ultra Tour 100 without PWS is a similar racket.
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The throat doesnt look overly different to the Tour 95 mold to me, regardless if its been thinner beamed/longer body or whatever, the throat design etc... is still more similar to the Tour mold than anything else- and the JP Ultra Tour 100 is same again - so yeah a 98 extended frame but its a new mold made for Nishikori rather than anything existing, perhaps it will be the new Ultra (98 Tour?) next year but who knows
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