Paris may be a fashion capital and London may hold a monopoly on tennis heritage, but New York City is about being seen. And there are plenty of players ready for that. From bows for Naomi Osaka’s Nike shoes to a brand-new signature New Balance design for Coco Gauff and Andrey Rublev donning a yet-to-be-released K-Swiss model and Novak Djokovic in another new personalized Asics colorway, we’ve got plenty of shoes to watch during the 2024 US Open.

Frances Tiafoe doesn’t have a player-edition model from Nike, but he’s wearing the Nike Zoom GP Challenge 1 Premium model, a white and orange colorway that dropped for the US Open and has New York City detailing. The shoe features “NYC” on the lace tag and has additional Nike-plus-NYC highlights on the tongue and sockliner. Tiafoe also added a walkout shoe to his repertoire by wearing a The Surgeon custom-designed Nike sneaker in a marketing deal with Cadillac.

Andrey Rublev and K-Swiss announced a partnership ahead of the US Open that will eventually include a capsule collection with Rublev’s Rublo brand. But for now, Rublev is in a full K-Swiss kit with his new Rublo logo on the shirt, including wearing a yet-unreleased footwear model. The new shoe will become available at retail in January 2025, and Rublev is the only K-Swiss athlete wearing the model this season. Expect to see the silhouette as part of the Rublo collection when it releases.

Naomi Osaka’s shoes have bows—and not just the tied laces. As part of a collaboration between Nike and fashion designer Yoon Ahn, who created a special on-court kit and off-court accessories for Osaka’s US Open, the custom-made Nike Zoom GP Challenge 1 Premium shoes for Osaka also feature a bow on the heel. Osaka has both a black kit and a white and green kit, and we first saw the “black and summit white” shoes in a photo shoot and the “summit white and vivid green” shoes at practice. She wore the white and green during her first match on Tuesday, a day event. Expect to see the black at night.

After two straight years of new colorways for every tennis major, plus extra designs along the way, the 2024 US Open offers up the first tournament where the defending women’s champion will play in the brand-new New Balance Coco CG2 signature model. With an upper inspired by the New Balance 550, the midtop shoe’s colorway riffs off New York City, the site of Gauff’s first major victory last year. Dubbed the Power and Grace colorway, the shoe’s base blue color ties to the Statue of Liberty, with the bright yellow a nod to New York’s bright lights.

Novak Djokovic’s Lacoste apparel went all blue for the 2024 US Open, so his Asics Court FF 3 Novak shoes follow suit. Asics has recently placed the number of major singles titles Djokovic has in numeric fashion on his sneakers, and this tournament the “24” appears small on the side of his shoes near the collar. Since he’s a lead athlete for Asics footwear, the Novak version of the Court FF 3 comes with his personal logo on the tongue and heel.

Back in the spring Babolat surprised us all with a special player-edition model of the Propulse Fury 3 for Benoit Paire, complete with plenty of edginess. The model returned for the US Open, this time in white and pink, but still with the specialized three icons that feature a tennis racquet and ball (yeah, not edgy), a cocktail glass with an olive on the rim highlighting Paire’s party-first lifestyle (a little edgier), and then a cat, a reference to a vulgar phrase he yells to opponents after they hit a winner (okay, lots of edge). Of course, Paire didn’t make it out of qualifying, so we won’t see the shoes in the main draw.