By Richard Pagliaro | Friday, October 17, 2025Photo credit score: Elsa/Getty
The Polo pony shall be romping by Flushing Meadows for an additional six years.
The USTA celebrates its 20-year partnership with Ralph Lauren by renewing its US Open collaboration for an additional six years.
Ralph Lauren will proceed to outfit all US Open on-court officers and ball crew members, in addition to providing a commemorative US Open assortment of attire and equipment for males, girls and kids.
“We’re extremely proud to have a good time 20 years of partnership with Ralph Lauren and are excited to increase our collaboration into the subsequent decade,” stated Kirsten Corio, Chief Business Officer, USTA, in an announcement. “Because the Official Clothes shop, Ralph Lauren has change into synonymous with the US Open’s iconic type, making certain our officers and ball crew are at all times impeccably dressed.
“Past the court docket, Ralph Lauren’s international attain permits US Open followers worldwide to attach with the match by their retail presence.”
The Ralph Lauren-designed chair umpire and ball individual’s uniforms have evoked excessive response amongst US Open followers lately.
Some followers completely adore the Ralph Lauren-designed uniforms as bringing distinctive and colourful type to the true blue US Open courts creating an iconic look that distinguishes New York Metropolis’s Grand Slam from the opposite three majors.
Skeptics say the attire strikes them as a bit gaudy and excessive and query why a serious tennis match continues to function an enormous polo pony as uniform emblem quite than a tennis-themed emblem?
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Ralph Lauren himself is from New York Metropolis and the model has partnered the USTA in selling leisure tennis as properly.
As a part of the partnership renewal, the USTA says it “will set up an annual fund with Ralph Lauren throughout the USTA Basis. The goal is to supply younger individuals from under-resourced communities with extra equitable entry to tennis and schooling programming, serving to to organize them for the challenges and alternatives of life.”
“For almost six a long time, Ralph Lauren has been deeply impressed by the world of sport and tennis specifically – its energetic spirit, sportsmanship and heritage of favor is part of who we’re. We’re thrilled to proceed because the Official Clothes shop of the US Open, constructing on our 20 12 months partnership that has outlined the match’s signature type and has been a canvas for unbelievable innovation,” David Lauren, Chief Branding & Innovation Officer, Ralph Lauren, stated. “As we glance forward, we’re not simply celebrating our heritage in tennis, we’re investing in the way forward for the sport and the subsequent era of champions who will name this court docket house.”
