Let’s get the obvious out of the way first: Wimbledon footwear is all about white. And not a lot more. Coming on the heels of the fashion-forward Roland-Garros, brands dipping their toes in the Parisian style came away with a bit of clay on the outsole. When it comes time for Wimbledon in London, just a few weeks later, there’s not a lot of colorful leeway, so expect the grass stains to combine with one main color—or lack of color.

While the Australian Open is known for brands introducing new footwear styles for the calendar year, Roland-Garros an effort to show off Parisian-inspired design, and the late-summer US Open all about making a late-season splash, brands have the double whammy of Wimbledon that keeps them subdued, both the restrictive color rules and the fact that grass-soled shoes aren’t typically a retail offering (it is actually rare for a brand to sell a grass-soled shoe in the United States).

As we look to 2024 Wimbledon in footwear, design is largely defined by accents. This year we see plenty of black (Asics, New Balance, Yonex, On, Adidas, and Lotto) and green (Wilson, Novak Djokovic, Naomi Osaka, and Lacoste), even if we have a few notable snippets to discuss.

Carlos Alcaraz is donning a player-edition version of the Nike Vapor 11, his with soft blue accents on the collar, Swoosh, and in a diamond pattern on the midfoot. We don’t know a lot about what’s under the hood of the Vapor 11 for Alcaraz, but seeing him get special treatment with the colorway—and seeing that it is now available as a retail option—leaves us hopeful that by the U.S. Open Nike will give us an entire Alcaraz color story. With the Spaniard leading the new crop of male tennis athletes for Nike—Jannik Sinner is also a Nike athlete, but he’s not as willing to try new styles when it comes to his sneakers—if the brand wants to continue to make a splash in men’s tennis, expect it to happen with Alcaraz.

The official sponsor of Wimbledon footwear, Babolat outfits the ball kids. That includes the footwear, a choice between the SFX 3 Wimbledon or Propulse Junior Wimbledon. The SFX 3 model is a white base, obviously, but comes accented in gold and with the official Wimbledon logo on the tongue. The Propulse Junior offers up silver accenting and moves the official tournament logo to the heel.

Naomi Osaka gets special treatment at Nike. That includes everything from her kit to her footwear. Wearing the GP Challenge 1, Osaka has come to Wimbledon with green accents on her shoe and her personalized “NO” logo on the tongue of the model.

Typically, New Balance makes a big deal—rightfully so, in the opinion of tennis sneaker lovers—of each new colorway of the only signature shoe in the game for an active player, but this year’s Wimbledon has little fanfare (just wait until we tell you about the upcoming Olympics model, though!). Gauff is wearing an all-white Coco CG1 with a slight outline of neon around the black “N” logo on the heel, splashing a bit of color that the rest of the New Balance athletes don’t enjoy.

Lacoste has brought out a players-only grass-court version of the AG-LT23, and Daniil Medvedev is again sporting a version with his personal logo.

Novak Djokovic has a green-accented version of his Asics Court FF 3, even as all the other Asics athletes have black. The Djokovic shoe also features a “24” on the lateral side, signifying how many major championships he has won.