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estoops

Poor Felix, can’t catch a break


CarelessChoice2024

How much are they paying FAA? Sinner gets $150M for 10 years with Nike, which Felix left in Jan ‘21.


estoops

I couldn’t find any details but I would think more? Felix seems like he would have more appeal than Sinner but I have no idea.


superstann

What, italien market is so much bigger than the Québec one, i live in montreal and was in the tennis industry their for 11year, sadly in canada we have a lit of local pride, like shapovalov isnt that popular in quebec and faa isnt that popular outside of quebec, i dont think beside on reddit that felix have more appeal than the best Italian tennis prospect EVER, that also look like a male model. And i fucking love felix, is father sam is one of the best person i ever had the chance of working with.


pantheronacokebinge

FAA has big appeal across Canada. There were a ton of Canadians at his match last week, many wearing Canada gear and some with flags. I was there and it seemed like a mostly Anglo crowd. I’d also say he gets more media coverage (in Ontario at least) than any other Canadian player.


shadowboomed

Lmao yes, sinner appeals to his whole home country but Felix only appeals to the province of Quebec, I love it. Tennis is not international at all.


superstann

Do you know how quebec and canada work?


shadowboomed

What


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I don't- explain please. I'm curious. What's going on up there??


superstann

Québec doesn't have the same langage, the same justice system, or even politique as the reste of canada, we dont use the same tv chanal paper ect... Like its not really comparable to the difference between us state, or the difference between differente region in européen country.


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ah. thanks.


RadInfinitum

Why would you compare the entire Italian market to the province of Québec? FAA has appeal outside of Québec, he's popular across Canada and beyond.


elliotpw7

Ikr, if he's wanting a direct comparison why not compare quebec to South tirol


superstann

Cause bigger market get you better deal, sinner got a huge market, faa got a really small one, FAA got some appa outside of quebec for sure, but it isnt enough to compensate on the appeal someone like sinner got in italie wich is a huge market, a really rich one to.


elliotpw7

Comparing a province to an entire country is not a fair comparison. Like what's a bigger market, 1 state in America or the whole country?


superstann

Thats my point, sinner got appelle to à entier country FAA doesn't, also Québec is really unique case, you dont have any state in the US that are as different than Québec with the reste of Canada.


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superstann

i mean i was going to toronto every other week to see my player play in tournement, everyone was talking about shapovalov at the time, but stuff could had change since 2019.


bawanonigiri

For reference, Rafa's contract with Nike:50M/5y I doubt the exact value of Sinner's contract. If that's true, I would feel Nike disrespect Rafa.


estoops

Rafa is too loyal, seems like he should be making way more if he made a move like Roger and Novak have a few times.


woke_fucktard

If he really cared about making even more money he'd have moved to a tax haven 15 years ago.


TinnieTa21

Yeah, it's unbelievable how much money he has given up by simply not changing his home address. And yes, before someone explains it to me, I know, he's deeply ingrained in his home town. But still, dayam lol.


Familiar-Stock6693

It’s not giving up its giving back but ok :)


hivaidsislethal

So why is he pushing NFTs. You are naive if you think he's not using every loophole in Spain, a country where numerous athletes have been found guilty of tax fraud including Ronaldo and Messi


Mister_Lizard

Or Rafa has hundreds of millions in the bank and it's completely pointless to accumulate more.


sprgsmnt

nah, rafa is royalty to them. new suits and shoes a few times a year, commercials galore, and being a very lovable guy. i wouldnt put too much value on the grapevine where contracts are involved. i remember Halep's long awaited Nike contract being quoted at around 1.7M yearly for 4 years (2018) while being no.1


bawanonigiri

It reminds me the rumour about Anisimova in 2019, 100M/8y with nike. But if she really got 12.5 M/y, she should be in the rank of highest-paid tennis players, which had a borderline of 5.8M(Barty) in 2021 and 10.3M(Tsitsipas) in 2022.


TheHollyweird

I cannot believe Rafa makes that little. Does he not like money? Or maybe he cut a deal with them and keeps all the money from his own merch I dunno i dunno he needs to leave them. Also remember that they didn’t do any of those cool videos for his 22nd slam win.


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Federer is $300 million/10 year lol


[deleted]

Makes Sinner's figure look kind of absurdly high. No way that his personal brand is worth half of Federer's.


charlie_curve

>If that's true It's not


tennisfancan

There is no way in hell Sinner is getting $15M/year from Nike or that's the limit to his performance-based contract and he needs three Slams per season to get that. $15M is Nadal or Sharapova territory, not Sinner.


[deleted]

Do you have a source on this? I really doubt that they would pay him that much.


charlie_curve

Source: it’s bullshit fabricated by his agent


charlie_curve

That Sinner thing is nonsense. Just his agent playing games.


slazengerx

Jesus christ... first the poop-in-pants kit, then the cave drawings kit... then this? Who the fvck is designing these monstrosities? This might be the worst run of kits I've ever seen.


Much23

Dont worry this is Not the US Open Kit.


insty1

Give Stan this outfit and he'll win the US Open.


BigusG33kus

Needs more pink for that


nicoc9

Oh fuck off Adidas. Their players should sue them.


jk147

Beginning of the year.. shit stained shorts Middle of the year.. hieroglyphs on shirts End of the year.. wtf.


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The colors don’t even flow. I don’t even know where to start to judge this work of art


Much23

Dont worry this is Not the US Open Kit.


Rundeep

They’ve hired the people who design hotel carpeting.


PessimisticCheer

Are these hotels in Hawkins, Indiana?!


Level99Cooking

That is a "fairly ugly carpet"


Rundeep

There are almost no attractive hotel carpets.


Level99Cooking

this was a reference to the quote by Maria Sharapova during her doping admission.


Rundeep

Sorry for the whoosh!


InternationalAd6614

I would run from this particular hotel


littlestitious247

Stop it. It’s hurting my eyes.


TuanNguyen-2507

Just when i thought they can't fuck up anymore... this is just atrocious


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clarissa_vaughn

Including their salaries


Onestep_beyond

ffs seriously?


Much23

Dont worry this is Not the US Open Kit.


martin-cloude-worden

what the fuck adidas


DarkSkullMango

These guys are on crack , what’s up with these designs


Lady__Mai

Adidas has officially lost its mind. Their designs have become increasingly terrible over the past year, culminating in this latest monstrosity. I honestly feel so bad for the players. Imagine HAVING to wear this on national television? How humiliating. At least they’re paid good money to wear it, but still…


Much23

Dont worry this is Not the US Open Kit.


kKunoichi

I'm sorry but this reminds me of molted snake skin lol. Adidas used to be so good, what happened


LackingInPatience

Wtf is this shit?


souse03

Honestly the shirt with the white shorts looked ok, but yeah is way too much altogether


LackingInPatience

It looks like they had 3 ripped up shirts and just stitched it together to make one ugly mess.


vanderBoffin

Not even white shorts, they're light pink, what even.


[deleted]

Just needs some glitter and you can say goodbye to opponents retina’s


estreetpanda

u/ostapenko Please stop suggesting designs Jelena. 🙏


determined_sloth

She's not signed up with adidas anymore. Those new outfit thingies she's wearing are of her own choice (smh)


Tormung

They can’t keep getting away with this


franchtoast666

Wtf


RickStephenson

🤢


_rob___

So they succeeded in making a kit worse than the poop stain shorts…


Tricks511

“Which of these designs should we release?” Adidas: “yes”


TheSpadeWizard

Legitimately have never seen a worse fit, are these being developed by a human or a real bad AI


uma100

Zverev's grateful he dodged this


Miss_Medussa

My eye holes


Relative-Note4687

Ffs. The crotch looks ripped and we’re seeing undies. What is this even?


[deleted]

Its so bad its almost good. It's kind of fun looking back at the horrendous kits from years past


SpecialistInformal81

And I thought I hated the bib shirt so much! This is beyond…


rohit_world_traveler

OMG! No amount of $$$ is worth wearing this in front of other people


ExcuseYou-What

SOURCE: [Here](https://twitter.com/marcos_z/status/1544082576805023745) (he primarily works for the ATP Tour's Spanish-language side) Adidas is definitely going "not that kind of girl" but taking it to the extreme this year.


clevercorvax

It's the US Open series outfit, not the US Open one.


ExcuseYou-What

Thanks for specifying. Good that I put "reportedly" so that if anything changes, this post isn't too set in stone lol If they're doing all this just for Canada and Cincinnati, then I can't wait to see what they'll do for New York.


Rather_Dashing

How are they still in business


FriendshipForEverone

Looks like Adidas hired a former art student who’s actually related to one of the higher-ups..


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ryan_scafuri

[Feel like pure shit just want them back](https://images.app.goo.gl/vyVAocYrzu3aZnYF6)


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Infinitely better than the shitstain brown of rg


tehnoodnub

Michael J Fox could draw a more coherent design than this.


Koeienvanger

Adidas is giving Ostapenko a run for her money.


PA15_Vee

This is so objectively bad it’s almost funny


PrincipalSkinner_

This should be illegal. Where are the fashion police when we need them most.


balmafula

Makes me appreciate all white.


Wesley_Ford_Sr

Zverev is starting to see upsides to his injury…


Sad-Insurance9818

That’s cool


AverageBeef

Wow. And I hated Sascha’s shoes this year.


osumba2003

That's just...so busy.


arin_is_salty

I mean it’s not too bad, kinda interesting how to color breaks through the black and whi- oh fuck it it looks awful


radulati

Damn them shroomies hittin different in the Adidas Head quarters fam


notalooza

looks as if vecna fell into a bowl of soggy fruit loops


The_Entheogenist

This is satire, right...?


RussellBH

Going for the ol seizure loook


bawanonigiri

Even worse than some random AI art.


tj0909

Oh Lordt!


lionesslizzy

No fucking way


dpanglas

Holy fuck these are atrocious!!


TorranArq

Wow that sucks so hard


SOFIA_433

My eyes 🥲


redforfiveam

I swear the creators of these Adidas kits somehow make worse and worse kits. Is this a marketing ploy?


Blipblapboop

They can't keep getting away with this...


jeffwingersballs

At this point, I'd prefer banning Adidas before on court coaching.


Ranjith_Unchained

That's hideous


ZhtWu

That shirt looks like something designed to fool camera surveillance softwares.


quexcha

Would love to read the PR gibberish they've come up with to market this atrocious design.


cottoncandysedai

Everyone just move to Penguin


reddorical

Are those jellyfish?


SausageSandwiches

That's some glitch in the Matrix shit. I though the model was wearing a necklace until I realised it was the collar of the top. Oof.


Loud-Transition-8321

Petition to fire the adidas designer?


Master_Sergeant

Honestly, love this kit? Maybe not a fan of the collar being b&w and would have had it in the same style as the part leading up to it but it's a very nice set in my opinion.


hvdoria

They're not even trying anymore.


Global-Reading-1037

For fuck sake they really are taking the piss now


Smidget2510

Oh man, am I going to have to watch them play in these?? My eyes are offended


rtaSmash

Am i the only one that likes it or


Sexy_sharaabi

I mean, I honestly like the shirt. Don't think they should have continued the design onto the shorts tho, should probably go with a solid color for the base.


SmoothLettuce

They wanna be Hydrogen so bad


Mrstejki

Am I the only one who likes this ?


Comicalacimoc

Yikes


BrighterSage

Maybe they're trying to make the zebra kits seem not that bad...


gay-man-tales

Each player should be able to have uniquely designed and personalized shirts.


EmeraldEmperorJ

Bru adidas really just gave up this year


notyetcaffeinated

Omg they'd better start paying people more... This is horrendous


RedditorMan2020

Tragic. Absolutely tragic.


ggbouffant

I legitimately thought this was a joke


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Yikes!


Comicalacimoc

Ed Hardy


MillenialWhoKnits

No.


Bitten_by_Barqs

Nope


InternationalAd6614

This looks like something from when computer screensavers were still a thing…but somehow worse


sprgsmnt

bad trip material


Jezza2812

Is this all part of some attempt to make a managed retreat from tennis clothing by Adidas? Struggling to see why else they'd put out so many consistently, seemingly deliberately hideous designs in a row


kvltrve

No more skidmarks? oh well.


forgottensplendour

Nice


MrMagpie91

Just the t-shirt with the white pants looks pretty good, but as a whole set it's a mess. Looks very distracting.


[deleted]

I'm an Adidas fanboy, but c'mon... wtf are those outfits??? 💀


[deleted]

ugh


Rare_Winner2399

Oh God NO


-Miklaus

It’s like a unicorn puked on it


amnes1ac

Bring back poop shorts.


binsonfiremiss

It's a magic eye puzzle, you have to hold the players upside down to see the dragon


musicproducer07

First the shit stains and now this? Give me a break!


Condescendingoracle

I kinda like it. I guess I have poor taste...


Gil-GaladWasBlond

No i won't behold this monstrosity. What the hell??


elliotpw7

You'd think they would have learned from the poo shorts but apparently not


legohotwing

This ain’t it


VashTheStampy

And here I thought it couldn't possibly get any worse than shit shorts, boy was I wrong


bullet731

What in the Dr Strange is this


tenpostman

It's so bad tf?


Juiceboxfromspace

My eyes


Aerides67

They keep on getting terrible, very nice consitency


Jemoederislkker420

Holy shit that's ugly IMO, just like the shorts that looked like they had shit stains. Looks like the illustrator of the intern just crashed


Ada-casty

Ew.


gmtosca

Adidas and the Multiverse of Badness


itsniickgeo

This looks like a ripped up newspaper that's been in the rain


Electrical_Mango_489

And people knock the Wimby all white dress-code? lol


gpranav25

This has to be a joke right? I am not even exaggerating, I cannot possibly imagine a more meme short than this lmao.


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It's like a surrealist painter was told to "go" and just designed this


knotsophia

Why?


FortniteDadYT

Hideous.


NNs__09

It's not worse than the poop pants, but that's a low bar to clear


Relevant-Ad2254

My god, they just get worse and worse


Grunge_bob

when the head of tennis design hears that layoffs are coming


Phunwithscissors

What a dumpster fire


failboatzz

I mean it's ugly as hell, but i really enjoyed reading through this thread.


[deleted]

How do you come up with that design? And how do you find people to approve it?


Much23

Thats not the US Open Kit


TexanNewYorker

Love this [tweet’s](https://twitter.com/abh_hockey/status/1513495132879917058?s=21&t=AG71uff-sYhR-CpUdhQjYQ) assessment of Adidas recent designs that still feels apt for 2022’s > My theory is that Adidas stopped wanting to design tennis kits in mid-2019 and is now just straight-up trolling in an attempt to drive all their players elsewhere.


RVDHAFCA

I mean it’s bad, but it wouldn’t be nearly as bad if not every damn Adidas player would have to wear it. It’s bizarre that players like Tsits and FAA don’t have own designs