After skipping last year to give birth, two-time US Open champion Naomi Osaka is back in New York in a frilly bowed custom Nike ensemble designed by Ambush’s Yoon Ahn Former world no. 1 female tennis player and two-time US Open champion Naomi Osaka is back at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center this week. And so is the fashion.
Not since Serena Williams’ retirement in 2022 has the US Open seen Nike’s custom tennis kits. This year, the sports brand has only dressed one player for the tournament: Osaka who has been with Nike since 2019. For her opening match on Aug.
28 (Manila time) against no. 10 seed Jelena Ostapenko, Osaka will don a satiny black bomber jacket with a large bow in the back—“couture” per Nike—and underneath it, a bowed four-tier ruffled competition dress, all designed by Ambush co-founder and Nike global women‘s curator Yoon Ahn. READ: “ Athletes are humans”: Naomi Osaka stands by decision to skip media duties On the hard court, Osaka will pair this ensemble with a custom Nike pair of shoes, also bearing a bow on the back of each foot.
The look is part of one-of-a-kind day and night competition kits that come in green and black and are “designed for the exact specifications of her game.” Nike also made a version for Osaka’s 1-year-old daughter in the occasion that she might watch her mother play. In an interview, Ahn said, Osaka was inspired by Japanese subculture references, particularly Lolita goth.
“She sent me a few look.