I think this HAS to be the biggest pay-off for the "MIAdidas" webiste that they could have ever hoped for! I can only imagine the footwear the courts will see with junior players gearing up for the high school season. What a great way to market your shoes.. allow the people buying them to design them!

I know Nike has something similar... just wish they would get on board the tennis train. I really like my (discontinued) Nike Oscilates, but MIAdidas.com look like they will getting my next shoe purchase.

Hmmmm... maybe some in a red, blue and yellow color scheme... LOL!

I saw her shoes wen se was playing against Sharpova. I was thinking, those look really cool. I live in Ga and am sooo proud of her performances. Go Oudin!

Now all the wannabes can rejoice a return of the 90s fashion of hot pink, neon yellow, and replace "believe" with the ever annoying nonstop "C'MON"...

Really enjoying her performance and pulling for her but the shoes are a disaster! Awful! Are they really selling them?

I think if Nike were a little more arrogant they would do better.
Ahhhhem.
Loving the shoes. Keep it up. Adidas deserves it for backing her early with more than just clothes.
McFlurry is going to beat McCartney, you wait and see.
Clean neon will beat dirty mauve. You just wait and see.
Adidas on Adidas violence. What fun. Wacky Wozniacki sure did clean up her act in a hurry. Let's see how she does with crowd control this time.

Looking at those shoes hurts my eyes.

one of friends recently ordered a pair from that site. I'll be interested to see them. I'm sure "C'MON" will be a popular word to have on the shoes, however I'm more a fan of "That's Right!" after I hit a winner.....lol

i love her shoes. i want a pair. she is like fresh air. i hope she wins. i love her spirit.

i love her shoes. she has such spirit. i hope she wins.

Oudin is great. I hope she and Clijsters play in the finals, but I think she's going a little bit overboard with “C’MON” every time she wins a point. That’s little bit annoying, I hope she can control that. When she played Sharapova, my god, both of them, “C’MON”, “C’MON, too much.

I just wished they would offer more colors- that would really be nice like yellow for the inside and outside bases of the shoe- that would be nice.

I know people don't like the "C'mon!" from her, but it really doesn't seem to come with any of the the obnoxious attitude that sometimes accompanies its overuse.
I think she's just a real enthusiastic and motivated 17-yr. old.

But I mean, look at Rafa. VAmos! with that surly face!
When I first started watching him, my impression was "what a jerk!" But he's NOT.
You get the interviews after the match, and also read about his personal inter-relationships, and you can see that it's just a highly motivated and and enthusiastic player.

I'm thinking...same here.

Bill,

The other benefit of the miadidas system and the key one for me is that it allows you to select a wider fit for the shoe. Personally, I don't care what colour my shoes are and I don't have any need for them to include personal messages (I don't expect anyone to read them, I won't and I pity the day I take motivational advice from my sneakers) but I do need a slightly wider fitting than the standard model. The Barricades are the best hardcourt shoe on the market and I'm happy to pay that little bit extra in order to get them made to fit.

Oudin, I wanted her to win so badly, I kept yelling at the TV-move up some. She may have lost but she played great and beat some very good players and will only get better. VAMOS OUDIN.
I wish you the best and you were great at your very 1rst big tournament.

Color "palate"? Please. Don't trust your spellchecker.

Personally you couldn't pay me a million dollars to wear those shoes. Okay you could but I wouldn't be proud wearing them. Maybe it's because they look a bit too flashy and young but that's just me. Congrats to Melanie on a fantastic US Open, she was so refreshing and exciting to watch. All the best to her.

Bill:

I love the story about the shoes.

QUESTION????

I read in the New York Times last week that the men use the Wilson hard court ball while the women use the lighter/faster clay court ball. How much speed in MPH does that add/loss to a serve?

Also....what ball do they use at the Open for mixed doubles??

That was Stella McCartney's design? That dress was the ugliest, least flattering thing I have ever seen on a tennis player! The color was drab and boring and the silouette was frumpy.

$140 is a lot to pay for custom colors and a word. Do they still come with a 6 month warranty? I'll just stick with the off the shelf barricades.

Personally, I think the coup would have been to allow folks to print their own inserts for the little "word window" and change them at will. Think of all the sales to team (school, club) players: "Trounce Trinity"; "Crush Crowley"; "Bounce Baylor." And right now, players at the Open could slide "Rain Delay" into those little windows...

Pink and yellow. I never understood how someone could have decided those hues went well together. My personal opinion is that's the reason Rafa lost at the French this year, not the bad knees or Soderling. It was karma for Nike making him take the court in that garb. ;-)

I love 'em, Bill. Now, what to wear with them?

I bought a pair, but not for the colors (I made mine yellow and black) but because Miadidas let's you buy three shoe widths and specify different sizes for each shoe. In my case, the narrow size fits much better than the standard one-size-fits-all offerings of Nike etc.

You can also specify the shank stiffness and choose an insole.

If it were pitch black I think those shoes would still light up an entire city block!

Thanks to your generous support, so great.

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