After Haillet retired, Adidas rebranded the shoe around the American player Stan Smith, who helped popularize it within the ...

Learn more about it. While the term “tennis shoe” has become a catch-all for any athletic shoe, the sport requires footwear made specially for performance on the court. Long lunges ...

(I learned this when I bought my first pair of tennis shoes — a cheap pair from the mall —when I was 14, before tryouts for my high-school team. The sole came apart after a month of use.) ...