Nike Named a Tennis Classic After Its Own Skate Shops

A pink and black Tennis Classic went out on July 7 as half of the Nike SB FC Pack, and the headline on this post used to call it a Club 58 collaboration. It is not one. Club 58 is not a brand, a shop or a design studio. It is Nike’s own name for the core shops of the Nike SB community, which makes this an in-line Nike SB release named after Nike’s own retail partners, and that is a more interesting thing than a collaboration would have been.

The Tennis Classic is one of the silhouettes where the record is thinner than the coverage suggests. Nike has no live history page for it. Its own history of Nike tennis now redirects to a bare newsroom index, and the current Tennis Classic product page offers only that the shoe was born on the court and reimagined for every day, with no year attached. The two credible non-blog sources that do exist disagree with each other. Sports Illustrated places the Nike Wimbledon, worn by John McEnroe, among the leather tennis shoes of the late 1970s and early 1980s. The International Tennis Hall of Fame’s own sneaker exhibit never mentions the Wimbledon or the Tennis Classic at all and dates Nike’s arrival in tennis to McEnroe wearing an Air Trainer 1 prototype in 1986. The widely repeated claim that the Tennis Classic is a renamed Nike Wimbledon is carried by sneaker blogs and by nobody else, so this post does not carry it either.

What the skate version is, Nike does say. The SB Zoom Tennis Classic keeps the low, flat profile for board feel and puts Air Zoom in the heel. Nike’s materials line reads leather upper and rubber outsole, and the colorway is Hyper Pink/Black. Nike adds that the footwear in the pack carries sock liner artwork using the collection’s typography and color fades. Sneaker Bar Detroit, with the shoe in hand, describes a pink nubuck upper, black Swooshes and heel overlays, a yellow to orange to pink gradient insole, Gothic Club 58 heel embroidery split across the two shoes so the name only reads as a pair, and tattoo-style La Mas Fina lettering hidden under the tongue. Nike says leather, Sneaker Bar Detroit says nubuck and Tactics Japan says suede, so Nike’s word is the one used here.

The Club 58 question is where the coverage falls apart, and it is worth being precise. Nike’s newsroom names nine shops: Andrew, Bluetile, FTC, Geometric, Kingswell, NJ, Nocturnal, Plush and Thirty Fifth North, and runs their logos on the pack’s jerseys the way a kit sponsor would. Nike SB lead graphic designer Steven Gonzalez says the design started with Cumbia, and the pack’s La Mas Fina theme translates as the finest, worked through vintage Cumbia flyer typography and an angel graphic nodding to Los Angeles football and skate culture. Nothing beyond that is confirmed. Nobody runs Club 58 on the record, no founding year exists, and no source can say what the 58 refers to. Outlets have variously called it 58 European skate shops, a Beaverton-rooted collective of insiders and a group formed by Nike SB employees, and those accounts contradict each other and Nike. The earliest hard evidence of the program is the Nike SB Blazer Mid “WE Club 58,” AH6158-369, from May 2018, followed by a Dunk Low, BQ6817-401, in March 2021. A brand giving its best retail accounts a name and then building product around them is a loyalty program with a good graphic package, and there is nothing wrong with that as long as it is not sold as a collaboration.

Retail was $105, which is where the in-line Tennis Classic sits. There is no resale picture to report, because neither StockX nor GOAT carries a listing for the style code. The one hard market signal is retail rather than secondary: Black Sheep Skate Shop sold it out at $74.95, marked down from $104.95, so at least one shop discounted it before it cleared. The Air Max 95 in the same pack, IQ8395-100, carried $190.

The Nike SNKRS date was July 7, and shops in the United Kingdom and Japan ran it around July 1, so the pack landed in two waves and the mechanic varied by door between raffles, first come first served and a straight Quickstrike. Style code IQ8394-600, retail $105. Extra Butter, Black Sheep Skate Shop, Thirty Fifth North and Underground Skate Shop all carried it, and the Nike SNKRS launch pages for both pack shoes have since been retired. More from the Nike desk and the Club 58 tag.

Source: Sneaker Bar Detroit

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